Track and Field: Part 12 - Conall
Conall "Mindy!" I bellowed, doing my best to keep from yanking down the orange, party lights I'd just strung. They'd gotten wrapped around my antlers somehow, and now, if I moved in the slightest, a good four yards of the bastards were going to be on...
Lifted Higher: Chapter 1 - "Lips? Of an Angel"
1 "I can't believe I let you talk me into this, Paul." The Airedale terrier just stares through the gym's glass windows and shrugs. He grins at me, and his cute little ears flop as he brushes aside his bangs. Those blue eyes are positively glowing...
Strangers After All: Part VI
All I managed to do after Deacon scurried away with my shirt plastered to his face was this: 1.) Smile like a moron. 2.) Collapse onto Benji's bed. 3.) Laugh uncontrollably, in utter bliss, for five minutes straight. I couldn't keep the joy I was...
Strangers After All: Part IX
Deacon's head was bowed and clasped in his paws. I felt terrible for making him feel obligated to tell me his secrets. I mean, they were secrets for a reason. I think that both Tabitha and I agreed, though, that he'd feel much better once he got all...
Strangers After All: Part VII
Benji told us we were free to spend the night, but both Deacon and I knew we'd been in his hair for too long. We were on a break from school, but we were pretty sure that he had to go to work the next day. The goodbye wasn't as sorrowful as I would...
Track and Field: Part 18 - Black Magic Woman
Lee My arm hurts. It always hurts. The pain's like an itch--like the kind you get in your throat. You can't really do anything to be rid of it. It's always just there. The pain in my heart's the same way. "Come on, son," Uncle Arthur sighed as he...
Strangers After All: Part IV
My first reaction upon hobbling into Benji's home was "Oh God, don't touch anything." The front door fed straight into the living room, the carpet plush and white, the walls black with elegantly detailed molding in ivory shades; a glass-topped coffee...
Track and Field: Part 22 - Hey Now
T_his isn't happening. This isn't happening. This isn't happening._ There was urgent, soul-piercing beeping from somewhere. A weary-eyed Lynx doctor rushed down the sanitized corridor, whipping up the stale smell of disinfectant. He didn't even glance...
Track and Field: Part 21 - Demons
Red _"RAAAAARRGHHH!"_ _Lee comes at me--a blur of cobalt blue fur and white fists, his eyes red and trailing crimson vapors. My heart quivers. My legs quiver. My arms shudder as I somehow get my paws up in time to block his furious punches. The...
Never Let Me Go
Jameson and I were both eight when he got into a car wreck with his family and he broke both of his arms. His parents got a few bad cuts, but nothing more serious. I remember his red casts and how proud he was of them, how I (as his best friend) was...
Track & Field: Part 26 - Live Forever
Lee It's odd to know you'll never see someone again, especially someone who'd had enough life and vigor for a handful of people, who you never thought would go out in such a gruesome way. I'd known Devrol Hull since I was eight. Uncle Arthur had...
Track & Field: Part 25 - Red Hands
Sasha Back when I was a kit I had a lot of troubles, and a real big one was getting to sleep. But I wasn't afraid of the dark, and I wasn't afraid of anything lurking under my bed ready to snatch me from beneath my covers. Monsters like that weren't...