Track and Field: Part 20 - Almost Lover
Mindy I couldn't look Trace in the eye, even though I knew his great silver head was turned towards me as I drove. "Mindy," he sighed. "Why didn't you tell him?" After we'd left _Perks--_having delivering our news to Sasha--we retreated to the...
Strangers After All: part VIII
I couldn't remember the last time I felt so warm. There was the blanket, which I guess Deacon draped over us at some point in the night, but there was the comfort of him too. He was something that I wished I'd found sooner, and I never wanted to loose...
Salem Rose Host Club: "The Performance."
"Hello?" I mewed timidly, taking apprehensive steps down the hall. I stared around anticipating Cooper to leap out and scare the shit out of me again, but I saw no one. And this hall went on forever--door after door after door. This building had to be...
Salem Rose Host Club: "The Appointment."
It was a typical Wednesday afternoon--nothing special--just me, myself, and Isometry homework for math class. I fucking hate math. Luckily, and to brighten my mood a bit, I'd been able to lay claim to my favorite booth at Starbucks to study in. I...
New Generation of Heroes: Chapter 4 - "Manifest Destiny"
4 Doctor Conway asked Rhy to see him after class. The wolf (reasonably) had no idea what to expect. He thought about it and realized he didn't know _who_ to expect either. Would Conway be _Conway_ when the student entered his office? Before Seth...
New Generation of Heroes: Chapter 5 - "Seen the Light"
5 Norma Cossette had lived in tiny Barton Lake, Kansas since she was a squealing infant. The now matronly raccoon went through twelve years of school in that small town, then fifty-three more working job after job, dreaming of bigger places and of a...
New Generation of Heroes: Chapter 3 - "Eyes"
3 Kendall Conway (aka Skinwalker) came onto the hero scene in the early eighties after a devastating explosion (which he now knew was backfire from his manifesting powers) swallowed his home and killed his family. He'd been visiting from college at...
New Generation of Heroes: Chapter 7 - "Blood Ties"
7 Up north it was cold, but Canada was always cold to a degree. Still, Ben and his younger brother Jerry hadn't adapted to the climate yet. Their impromptu flight from the USA (or their _reassignment,_ as their boss had put it) was only three weeks...
New Generation of Heroes: Chapter 6 - "Waves"
6 Kizzi squatted in a tidal pool and watched as her little brother, driftwood stick in hand, poked a crab he'd knocked upside down. The crustacean, about the size of a dinner plate and bright red, clacked and spewed bubbles as Mickey prodded its...
Plain-walker: Chapter 1
1 Snow drifted lazily down from the heavy grey, overcast sky. Flakes had been falling for the past week since Ruik finally crossed into the north. The expansive forest surrounding him--called the Direwood--was blanched icy-white, the trees all bare...
Barred: Chapter 6
6 Nomac sulked behind his espresso machines--Old Bessie I and II--and fiddled with the strings of his apron. The hulking, brew-spitting monstrosities blocked his few of any customers standing just on the other side of the counter, and he was glad...
Barred: Chapter 4
4 Nomac saw stars. Other bar-goers gasped and _ooh_-ed. The coyote tripped backward and the bar bit into his spine as he collided with it and crumpled to the floor. He tried opening his eyes, but those damn stars still blinded him, red and blue...