BOVINE PARENTS (Epilogue)
**"Bovine Parents"** EPILOGUE The young calf sat by a stream, all on his lonesome. This was supposed to be a happier day. His thirteenth birthday celebrations had come and gone in the morning, now he was alone with his thoughts, and his doubts. He...
A New Purpose Part 5
Alex appeared as Irma lifted her wing away and looked at us over her body grinning like a loon. "I knew it. I knew there was an infestation of rattlesnakes around here somewhere." "And there go the happy feelings." I muttered, my glee evanescing, I...
A New Purpose Part 4
After some time, we awoke. I opened my eyes to see the gaping mouth of my yawning wife as she cleared her head. Once a moment had passed, she pulled my head closer to hers, and rubbed her cheek against my own while she made a rumbling noise the likes...
A New Purpose Part 6
As we sat there and tried to process what was happening. Brian and Serena had gradually overcame their initial hysteria and were talking rapidly to each other. Luke and Lucy were still whimpering beneath Kim's raised wing as she craned her head back...
A New Purpose Part 8
I roused from the stupor I had fallen into while simultaneously tracking the goings on around me and gnawing over what to do about the growing hunger that I felt distantly in my elongated body. I opened my right eye to glance down at those who had...
A New Purpose Part 3
Sometime later, I felt a nudge. And then another. Then a voice spoke; "c'mon Dad, you're heavy." Finally the voice registered. And panic flared anew in my body. "Lucy! What are you doing? I thought your mother told you to stay in the attic! We could...
A New Purpose Part 7
Irma snorted derisively and cracked her tail. "Skin or scale? We can't even agreeee how to treat those with different colorsss, to say nothing of whatever isss to be made of usss now. What happened to him declaring martial law?" Ulysses stepped...
A New Family Part 7
A New Family Part 7 Dramatis Personae Family of 5 (Colonists) - Ataksak (Mother) 41 - Negafook (Father) 42 - Nanook (elder son) 22 - Pinga (daughter) 22 - Silla (younger daughter) 8 Other Cast - Diana (Daughter of Nathan and Alessandra) 102 -...
A New Purpose Part 1
I sat back and reflected on the story I had to tell, while my wife passed by outside singing some kind of praise about her own awesomeness. I gave an amused chortle as her passage rattled the outside of our barn. I craned my head back to look at the...
Take it as a Compliment
It was a warm evening in April, and Ralph Collins was ready to impress the movers and shakers of high society. With a gaily-held wine glass in hand and a carefree expression, he was the picture of an effortlessly confident socialite, but in truth he...
A New Purpose Part 2
I woke seven hours later as my brother shook me awake. "Alex?" I queried groggily. "Get up you slug, your wife says you've slept enough." I snapped awake "God damn it Kim! I said four hour shifts!" She looked up from where she was sitting next to...
Drop that fake accent... you're Mymic now.
The dark Thumpback followed Frygus through the halls of this building. It seemed almost like a catacomb of some kind - maybe like some kind of an underground palace. Peter certainly didn't see any windows, and he certainly recognized bones and skulls...