Pride Rock
"Hey, that's...!" Klein tilted his head at the otter's exclamation quizzically. "What? Cheating?" The therapist sighed, thinking back on his own taunts at the skunk earlier during the fight. "Fair enough," the shifter shook his head resignedly. "So...
And Unjust Alike
The tournaments had never been Soma's favorite time of the year. It wasn't that the healer had anything against martial artists, but every time the tournaments came around, more of them would get hurt. The more of them got hurt, the more of them he...
Diaz & Mandrake
Mandrake's modus operandi usually involved inviting his patients to his own office rather than going all the way to meet them where they dwelled, but as shut-ins were difficult to draw out of where they lived for obvious reasons, the otter had decided...
Grim Forge
People who die and who go to heaven realize that some of the people who they cared about in life were sent to hell and that they're no longer allowed to interact with each other. The split shifts, from being simply between demons on one side and angels...
Shinai & Rajiv
Shinai the weasel lives in a dirt cheap, cramped, sparsely furnished dwelling in the burning hot Arizona desert. Weasels were long stereotyped as cowardly, so he first became a combatant to disprove that misconception and resist that label - he would...
Volk
In Volk's world, undeath ends up playing the social role of indefinite life extension reserved for the upper class. The wolf doesn't believe that there's such a thing as the afterlife, and unlike other undead-fighting heroes, he has no interest in...
Mandrake
Mandrake is from the Jungian, "left hand side" of psychology, not from the mainstream Freudian school at all, but from the movement which, even though it borrows from psychology itself for its own purposes, has been labeled the "anti-psychiatry"...
The Worm and the Fish
As the worm dangled on the end of his line, the fisherman became frustrated that none of the fish were biting, and began to curse the worm for being lousy bait. "Stupid worm", he said, "wriggling around like that and warning all the fish away. I swear...
Walden
Walden's mission in life is to deconstruct the many ways in which magic has been appropriated to serve the interests of the power structure at the expense of the general population - to use magic himself in ways that re-appropriate it while questioning...
Tandem
"I have to speculate that God himself did make us into corresponding shapes like puzzle pieces from the clay..." (Such Great Heights, The Postal Service) "I sometimes think that I'm too many people, too many people, too many people..." (Too Many...
Surface (Chapter 13)
"Boards don't fight back." - Bruce Lee The next morning, the first thing Klein had heard after having woken up had been the sound of Boko typing at his computer terminal. When he'd noticed that Klein had finally been up, Boko, ever the type to rise...
Surface (Chapter 11)
"Clothes do make the man. Naked people have almost no influence on society." - Mark Twain Boko's living quarters had looked like no other living quarters Klein had ever seen before in his life. A trapdoor concealed by sticks, moss, dirt and dead...