Tears in the Aisle (Otherwise Untitled)
~ To the success of the plan, the grocery was significantly less occupied during the hours the badger had selected, and she found the cereal aisle to be empty on her arrival. She peered down along its length, fingers clamped firmly onto the handle of...
Hazard Lights (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The coyote's finger's dug into the steering wheel, her own pulse and breathing all she could hear. Everything was hanging in place, as though seen through the fog of a dream. The hissing and wheeze of the car's engine buried into the soft dirt of the...
Blood in the Soil, Gaze to the Stars (Otherwise Untitled)
~ "Your great grandfather helped settle this colony, though! It was his hands and equipment that turned that field out there into its first crops!", the old coyote pleaded with her daughter. Her daughter, sitting across the empty table seemed to...
Games and Noise (Otherwise Untitled)
~ With the shower of flashing lights and garishly rattling music, Jake stared intently at the trio of metal bottles some yards away on their platform. The dragon's knuckles flexed around the second of the three balls his payment had secured. The kobold...
A Desperate Dalliance (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The frame of the ship could be heard to strain from the sustained posture of flanking speed, while Captain DeCaro paused to collect his thoughts. His hand pressed firmly into the scanner pad, to lend his embedded credentials to his orders, he nodded...
Battered Order (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The raccoon paused to regard the bowl of ingredients, measuring cup full of flour in hand. All that was left to the bowl to be containing pancake batter was for her to stir in the flour, though the bowl's current contents seemed be foaming violently....
Bluejay's Wares (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The blue jay barely looked up from his book as he reclined in the cheap folding chair behind the table of baubles and wares. "That's a fusor coupling. Bent, but the metal's still good scrap if you want a wedding band on the cheap.", he volunteered to...
Cutting Board Decisions (Otherwise Untitled)
~ Inhale. ~ Exhale. Hand shaking. ~ Inhale. ~ Exhale. Set the knife down on the counter. ~ Inhale. ~ Exhale. Back away from the cabbage. From the cutting board. From the counter. ~ Stumble. ~ Inhale. ~ Crumple to the floor. ~ Exhale. Tuck tail...
Subdued Arrival (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The bedroom was silent, short of the soft crackle of the clock radio on the nightstand that had been tuned to an empty spot of the dial and still held more minutes left to its Sleep mode. The fox, having generated a pile of the house pants and...
Boarding Pass (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The ship's captain reclined comfortably in her own folding chair, while the tiger sitting across from her was quite a bit less suited to his own. The air lock foyer to the ship was a soft hum of recharging and refueling connections to the station...
A lynx tries to explain (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The lynx blinked back tears, staring down at the plain gold band worn on their finger. The recently acquired ring was polished and naive, yet to accumulate the patina of scratches offered by life. ~ Declining to raise their gaze to meet their...
Off the Books (Otherwise Untitled)
~ The worn down motel provided all of the discretion that Detective Clip had planned for and counted on, the walkway outside a dull glow of the morning sun and cheap neon trim. The bathroom smelled of the faint mixture of bleach and mildew, an eternal...