Soul Makossa- Part Two
The night finally did arrive for Malcolm Mwebaka- the canid would have to forsake two weeks' salary and most, if not all, of the church's stipend just to get in the door and he would have to use all his rainy-day money just to get cross town from...
The Old Violin
There that old dusty relic sat- neglected, battered, and ancient. In its better days, that violin might have been used as by a philharmonic society or string quartet but in the home of Thomas and Margaet Chamberlin, the old collection of strings and...
Miracle of the Gulls
It had been another frustrating day for Eli Parhamm, the fox. But this frustrating day was simply indicative of the entire year of 1848 for the farmners of Deseret- the farmers who had spent hours in the hot sun over the summer would have their hard...
Memorial to a Coyote
The beach in Northern France was so quiet and so serene, a polar opposite of that day decades ago. This was Memorial Day for Nathan Calhoun and for the first time in decades Mr. Calhoun, the elderly coyote, grey in his muzzle, saw the beach which he in...
33 Floors- Part 1
Mathieu Barnette was not the kind of fox to be satisfied with the small things in life. He wanted things which were large for the town of Bien Faisant and as the city's mayor wanted to bring great talent in architecture and the illusion of bigness in...
The Secret Life of Joseph Davidson
"So, I'll be going to the salon to get my headfur done and I'll be back this afternoon," Joanne said. She was a beautiful vixen and Joseph felt very glad to have her but there were times when the two were apart both physically and psychologically, that...
Camera Eye: London
The trans-Atlantic flight was long enough but it was when Olivia figured that her fox boyfriend who was also her employer was quite the restless one that she wished the Atlantic was a lot smaller. As smart and wonderful a male fox as he was, confining...
The Twilight Zone
You unlock this door with the key of imaginatyion. Beyond it lies another unexplored dimension, a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of the mind. You are moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You have...
Song of the Romani
"Djelem, djelem" was the song the wandering wolf sang. Its verses recalled hatred and bloodshed and senseless suffering that was inflicted upon his nomadic pack but it also spoke of the confidence of finding a new home, away from what anyone would...
Passing of the Torch
"Do you know why I called you to come over, my son?" the fox asked, before drinking some water with some of his rheumatoid arthritis medicine. Grasping the bottle of water was a challenge for his old and enfeebled body. "No sir, I have no idea why...
Subdivisions
Outside of every major city, you will find them. Call them what you will bedroom communities, suburbs, subdivisions and I know there's a good chance that many of you readers live there. Startinbg in Levittown, New Jersey shortly after the end of the...
Chemistry
"Class, I want you to pour just a little bit of the phosphor into the water to dilute it- for safety reasons, then I want you to pour the phosphorized water into the Erlemeyer flask marked number two.and tell me what happens. And I want you all to wear...