Serval and Sheep (Chapter 6)
One firm shove from Leslie knocks Desmond to the ground. The urial shakes his head and offers a hand. "You're distracted today, captain," he sighs, "Are you feeling okay?" The Jacob sheep pushes himself up in a huff, ignoring Leslie's extended...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 25)
Hafsa has been asked 34 times so far if she and Solomon are dating. By friends, classmates, sometimes even complete strangers from different grades. It's never comfortable to discuss, but she can't say that this gossip is surprising. Two attractive...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 29)
"Dude, this is super weird." Marcel mumbles. Elmer nods. "Super fucking weird." "Do you think the smell can set her off? Like, sweat smell?" The two rams glance behind them, where a lanky white tigress sits on a bench, enthralled...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 30)
"Brian!" The rock dove barely shuts the front door when he is pounced on by two squealing children. His little stepbrother Cooper leaps all the way up to his neck, painfully digging his claws into his nape while trying to straddle his older bro's...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 5)
When I was born, my parents didn't know what to name me. They ended up picking the name Brian because it sounded nice. But for the first five minutes of my life, I wasn't Brian. I was a nameless animal, naked and crying, overwhelmed by a world I didn't...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 8)
"I said, how was the meeting?" Molly's annoyed voice falls on deaf ears. Even though a serval's hearing is superior to all other felines, Hafsa is out of business. The past two weeks have proven themselves to be one of the most miserable and shameful...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 7)
Hafsa couldn't get out of that room fast enough. She wishes her breakneck acceptance of Solomon's offer is read as a fledgeling's earnest enthusiasm to help her upperclassman rather than the desperate escape she wants. The two wave goodbye to the...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 33)
Ever since reading the feline behavior textbook, Desmond began to notice things about Hafsa he hadn't before. Like the way one realizes how many red things are in a room once they start looking for them. Slowly, day by day, he secretly adds more...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 26)
Miraculously enough, spring break did arrive for the students of Noah's Arc Academy on the first week of April. The annual exodus of animals from the school left only a few dozen stragglers still staying at the dorms, including Hafsa herself. With her...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 18)
The crowd explodes into applause as the fireworks go off. Animals rise to their feet violently enough to rattle the worn bleachers, whooping and hollering, drunk on the energy that only exists in a pep rally. The whizzing roman candles and fountains...
Solomon Talks: On The Subject of Diet
Good afternoon, all. This is Caracal Solomon, speaking to you at the behest of one "Malaise Soup" (what an odd name). It is my understanding that the world you inhabit is quite different from my own, so there are certain social principles that,...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 20)
As a child, my favorite days were Sunday, because that's when my father was home. As a renowned anesthesiologist, he worked six days a week and only came home after I had long since been tucked in, so I never really got to see him. But he would always...