Learning to Live Again: Foreword
What does it mean to live? Is it when you sit and watch t.v? Play a video game? Drive to and from work or school? No. That's merely surviving day-to-day. To live means to hold the one you love, push your luck, make mistakes, have fun and just get some...
I Never Eat Anything With A Face (Clean Version)
Mallory's eyes fluttered open. He ached all over, it hurt to breathe, all of the mouse's extremities screamed with pain, and when he tried to get up... no, that wasn't going to happen, his legs were broken, so was his right arm. Abruptly everything...
All that Glitters: Where Life Abides (Clean version)
As Warrav unfolded the aged map, Xavi was frozen as her mind fabricated the worst possible scenarios. If he went blundering into the library while Aro was there... he'd be liable to treat the dragon like a hostile animal, at best. In all his naivety,...
Blotches - Can't Come Clean Unless You're Dirty
= = = = = Blotches = = = = = All the eyes and ears in the room were upturned at full attention on kevin. The jaguar's muzzle had already decided what to say, yet his mind vacillated franticly over what was surreal fantasy and the...
The moon over paris (clean sly cooper ficlet)
Paris, France. The Eiffel Tower dominated the night skyline, the moon shining brightly behind it like a celestial spotlight. The ghostly light illuminating each falling snowflake as if Paris were a huge stage and each snowflake was a dancer, twisting...
The Lonely King
**The Lonely King** They call me terrible. They call me wicked. They call me tyrannical, mighty, and the greatest of calamities. They are...
Curse of the Werewolf
--- Curse of the Werewolf Through the underbrush he ran, desperate to reach the clearing in time. After decades of living with the curse, he had learned several tricks to maintaining his secret. One of the most...
My True Colors [Poem]
I tried to show you shimmering steel, But all that flattered you was rust. I tried to give you my entire heart, But you betrayed it in the dust. You wanted me to try and fix you, But you wanted me to break. You wanted me to give my all, So...
Spirit
P. Before light touched the world, there were the Three Divines. Earth, Sky, and Balance looked down on Spirit, a hardened ball of matter bearing nothing. Earth took pity on the mass and created mountains, forests, valleys, and barren deserts. Sky...
29 Injured
"Again?" the medic at the adventurer's guild asked. "Yep. Really." the crow said, slumping back in his chair. It was the fourth time this year he was placed on the injured reserve list. Being black-feathered, near silent, and capable of flight had...
26 Dark
Going into the cave seemed like a bad enough idea. Turns out it was even worse than that, as you discovered the hard way that you had fewer torches than you thought and the last one burned out before you could make your way out, leaving you and your...
19 Sling
It was with a heavy sigh that I moved on. All I could do was sling my bag over my shoulder and keep moving along the road. I'd been traveling for nearly two weeks, trying to make it to a city where I might have time to rest in the relative luxury of...