Wrecked
_ **Wrecked** _ I wanted to die. Lucky as I might've been not to have done so already. Here in the dark, up in the hills in the middle of only gods knew where, I sat staring past the cracks in my windscreen. Better that than at the petrified polecat...
By Full Moon I Love You
Ch.3 Sam collapsed against a lamppost, a hot, wheezing mess from running full tilt for the last 20 minutes or so. His...well, everything ached, but it was worth every damn step. He didn't feel alone or worried sick any longer, in fact, he felt...
Boiling Point
_ **Boiling Point** _ My walk from the station was more like a swim, the swampy summer morning air even more overwhelming and oppressive than the metro journey that'd got me there. A journey made up of three trains, two transfers, and nearly an entire...
Lost & Found
_ **Lost & Found** _ The air stifled so very much. Even on a morning that was not so hot, how difficult it was to breathe came as the first thing to my notice upon disembarking the train. To walk through the streets, the crowded, overloaded streets,...
Laundry Day
_ **Laundry Day** _ A mistake, a blunder, a five-star screw-up: whichever way you dressed it, avoiding my laundry for as long as I had done wouldn't be repeated. Each hefty haul of my overflowing wash basket was a struggle, sending scrapes and grinds...
Sneak Treats
_ **Sneak Treats** _ Corben's new sweet jar. At last, Raemon had made it within touching distance. He'd had quite the journey from the living room. One that'd left him puffing, half-winded atop the kitchen countertop. Sure, the giant raccoon had set...
Nobody's Servant, Part 21 - Redundancy
Have you ever left a particularly dismal news broadcast on and sunk deeper and deeper into a pit of self-made despair even though you could get up and turn it off at any time? This is like that, except for the part about being able to turn it off. ...
Taking For Himself
This time with the drastic size difference the entire cloud utterly buried sini in it. the thicker-than-normal fog practically clung to him and for a few moments sini was able to hold his breath.
DREADWOLF Chapter 9
Opal cried out in frustration and threw her fishing rod on the ground. "Maybe they just left, you said the fish were pretty smart," murmured Rain, lazing against a rock with his paws behind his head and his eyes closed. "Grr, I know, but it's...
Theatre of War
Theatre of War "Move, move!" People rushed past me, running for their lives. "Keep going!" Screams of terror cut the air. "Don't stop!" A clap of thunder overtook us all. The asphalt rumbled. The screaming got louder. I fought hard to stay...
Escaping the Storm: Part 10
_ **Part 10** _ While that single, solitary week before departure day proved flat and unremarkable, the same certainly couldn't be said of the atmosphere that grew to fill and take over the house. It reached its peak the morning Pieter and his family...
Escaping the Storm: Part 5
Part 5 As strange as it might have sounded, Erik found his first Wednesday of work required far more getting used to than he'd expected. Sure, it involved stacking those same shelves in that same busy supermarket, but the little things came together...