The Clockwork Falcon - part 5: Return Flight
He switched between releasing the clutch and changing the gears, allowing progressively slower cogs to drive the wings' motion. he released a long slow breath as he felt _the_ _falcon's_ legs press against the ground and and ease them to a stop.
Making Waves at Walter’s World
The large metal box fell out from between the cogs and clattered on the ground. now it was out of the machinery, i could see it had caterpillar tracks and a metal arm, which suddenly flinched and swung around.
The Machine
Realigned couplings and unseen cogs grip somewhere, giving torque to a strange new appendix. tubular and pointed, extruded alloy tries to mimic a lizard. i'm quadrupedal now, my body a massive, metallurgic construct, layered with organic estrangement.
Thirteen Tales 2020: Tale 3
This room like so many others had the wall covered in gears and cogs. however, they were moving now. in fact if he closed his eyes and listened he could hear machinery moving throughout the castle. it seemed the place had come to life.
Inheritence -Chapter 2-
They were stylized, ribbed at the end like cogs. maybe plastic surgery? most disconcerting was that fact that, in the shadow of the light above her, her eyes and the half glimpsed, swirling markings, glowed. a dim violet spark.
Purge
When did the cogs of time begin to turn? i have no way of knowing, even as i was there at the very beginning. when was the moment i gained a sense of being? how long had life existed before i became aware of the world?
An Anthro's Tale-Chapter 28-Heavyweight Championship
I watched as dj's autonomous cog switcher redlined at 5,435 and made a smooth transition into second gear.
Karoshi
Tezcat became one more of the myriad of cogs in his seemingly unassailable corporate empire.
Shayde's Story Chapter 1
One of the more bolder-looking scum-bags, a grey wolf, was taking far too much interest in the dusty red leather sheath hanging off shayde's hip for his liking, the cogs turning in his mind as he wondered how much it was worth on the black market.
Nowhere Hotel: the frist floor
A typewriter is affixed to the wall, a four-foot-wide cog holds the door head of us shut. a hammering sound is off in the distance.
Kaotic beginnings - A Kaos Army story - Chapter 2
He scanned the bad handwriting, "looks like 'blank plant: gate 3499c'," anar mused, "this was written on when i was in the contract office," still the cogs turned, "but why would they have changed it?" "well it was only a few hours ago, mate!
The Lead Crown: Ch 7a, Un-Escaping (Pt 3)
What caught her attention was final piece of the recording when marcelle said "to keep a machine running sometimes cogs must be replaced." it was a mechanist phrase... the phrase used when a member became more of a liability than an asset.