A Taste of Something Else ~ Chapter 11
I wanted to text zoey, alex, lukas, anybody. i just wanted someone to tell me that everything was going to be okay, that i hadn't just made the worst fuck-up of my entire life so far. but, then, that'd be a lie, wouldn't it?
Stars Brought You Here (Elder Scrolls)
A cloudy morning at the port town of Vulkhel Guard. Misty clouds hung low over the horizon, as grey as the sea below, and just as still; on land, life stirred even at this hour of morning, as shipping ports never really sleep. The bite of the cold, the...
Blackstar teaser
Trust me when I say that living on a space station is not as bad as it seems or that some would make it out to be, I mean yeah the air you breathe is recycled and if someone really wanted you dead a simple airlock flush is the cleanest way of doing so....
You Are Not Alone
"The high today got down to 89, and thanks to an incoming coldfront, tomorrow should come to 85. Also thanks to this front, we should have storms through the rest of this week..." The wolf looks up from his book at the TV, where the weatherman did his...
Nyctophobia
There was a house in a forest. IT was quite a remote place, bordered on all sides by high-reaching trees and on a bit of a hill, wedged between earth and sky. It was a two-story house, on the second story of which was a balcony, an overlook: if someone...
Moonlight ‾ Part 1
Shimmering sunlight filtered in through the open-air ceiling of the palace's great hall, the wide, far-reaching branches of the central tree casting speckled shadows down along the polished marble floors. The Queen sat there in her throne, carved...
Birdsong ~ Part 4
Felix froze where he stood, the _force_ of this presence swirling all around him. Shock, fear, disdain, disbelief, all pounded out and away from Askia where he stood, gun clutched in one paw and hatched in the other: hackles bristled, snout curled back...
Heart of the Forest ~ Chapter 2
Lannon sighed softly as the water coursed and flowed first around his ankles, the soft mud and rounded gravel of the riverbed settling in against his pawpads and between his toes. He looked up to the sky, took in a breath, and started further in, the...
Heart of the Forest ~ Chapter 1
_Day 1_ _Afternoon_ _ _ _Things here are exactly as I remember them, yet at the same time none of it feels familiar. It looks the same, it feels the same, it smells the same, but it's still completely different. Something here has changed, but...
Heart of the Forest ~ Chapter 5
The same flash of primal terror still shot through the young lynx's chest as the wolf trudged out of the trees and into the light. Lannon forced a smile through it, but deep inside he kicked himself - he had wanted, had hoped, that after their recent...
Heart of the Forest ~ Chapter 3
In the morning Lannon could still feel the beast's presence clinging to him, through the sticky matting of dried drool around his muzzle, neck, and shoulders as well as in the faint exhaustion vibrating through his muscles, the lingering remnants of...
Heart of the Forest ~ Chapter 20
_Day 63_ _Morning_ _ _ _It rained again last night..._ Summer blossomed. With it the forest swelled with the scent of fruits and flowers, and as the daylight grew longer so too did the nights shorten, even as they continued to warm up;...