Lonely Oak Chapter 81
"No... _Fucking..._ Way..." Panda gestured to the stage as the wolf left. "Goren, everybody!" He said to the crowd beside him, who had so reverently praised and flaunted him just a moment ago. "Lyza, your word is: Arrogance." "Arrogance," Lyza said...
Lonely Oak Chapter 80
The bitter blackness, heavy and viscous, rippled. It was a very quick, light ripple. Like the surface of a plate of gelatin, it wiggled and then settled. But it was just enough. The inky black feeling slipped away as the gently disturbed surface of his...
Lonely Oak Chapter 79
_How could today be so..._ boring? At some point, each student in Ms. Hupp's class had that thought. It was like a fantasy come true. It was Friday, Ritzer was still gone, and all day they had done nothing but watch educational movies. Sure, some...
Lonely Oak Chapter 78 - Flight Of The Spelling Bee (Part 2)
It was Wednesday, but to Lyza it still felt like Monday. Not in the sense that the day had the attributes of a Monday: fresh start to the beginning of the week, sleeping in the day before, and having only a little more than half a day to herself. It...
Lonely Oak Chapter 48
"Pull!" Lyza's fists clenched tighter. She waited, waited, waited. When the force of the sound hit her, she felt it stop her heart and shove the breath from her lungs, like someone had jabbed her in the gut. Kval pumped the shotgun and readied it...
Lonely Oak Chapter 17
Panda--now recognized by the name after he spent the entire day yesterday fixing that mess--huffed with great effort as he trudged along outside. It was PE, which meant he was not having any fun at all. Worse, Ritzer had been absent for a couple days...
Lonely Oak Chapter 32
Nine in the morning. The clouds had not yet broken in the sky. The air about was sweet with the smell of oncoming rain, half a month early. The grass was still a little wet with dew. There was a bit of a chill, which made the proceeding fifteen...
Lonely Oak Chapter 31
_Beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-BRRRR._ _Beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-BRRRR._ _Beep-beep-beep-beep-beep-BRRRR!_ "Hey," Emeral said softly, tapping Ket on the shoulder. He turned to her, left eye half-lidded, right eye almost completely closed. "It'd open...
Lonely Oak Chapter 30
The bell rang. Ket started in his seat, shockwaves of panic flowing across his body, made literal by the splaying of his fur. It was not the actual bell like he had first thought; it was the timer-bell that Ms. Hupp used to time their tests and...
Lonely Oak Chapter 29
"Nononono, hang on," Emeral said, pressing her hand up into the air, "that's totally wrong, you'll hurt your neck." "I'm doing exactly what you said!" Ket grumbled, his head and knees on the ground, situated in front of the couch cushions laid in a...
Lonely Oak Chapter 28
Lyza loved to play the flute. She had played since she was in kindergarten. Well, really she started with kazoos and whistles. When her parents saw her playing different whistles to get different sounds, they decided to formally enroll her in flute...
Lonely Oak Chapter 27
"Good morning, class." "Morning Ms. Hupp..." The raccoon teacher stood at the center of the room, wearing clothes that were a couple sizes smaller than she had from the beginning of January. Therefore, she was in a very upbeat mood this morning,...