Found and Lost
Found and Lost (excerpt from a longer tale, copyright 2007 Altivo Overo) After a while, Fennec's sobs subsided to little hiccups. He sat up, still feeling utterly miserable, and looked hard at the bracelet. There could be no doubt about its...
A Close Port of Call
A Close Port of Call by Altivo Overo "What beast couldst thou be, that were not subject to a beast?" --William Shakespeare, _Timon of Athens,_ Act IV, Scene 3 Dockmaster Mark Partine looked up from his terminal when the proximity chime sounded....
Dürnstein
**Dürnstein** _by Altivo Overo (copyright 2020)_ It was the early spring of 1193 when the fox Blondel discovered the place where his friend and master Richard was being held as a prisoner. The minstrel fox liked to tell the story in later years,...
All That Glitters
**All That Glitters** _by Altivo Overo (copyright 2016)_ Sequel to "Gibbous Moon Waning," please read that first. Francis already felt his heart growing lighter, with the awareness that if he had his token, then he obviously couldn't have lost it...
Gibbous Moon Waning
**Gibbous Moon Waning** _by Altivo Overo (copyright 2016)_ Francis sat there for quite a long time. He had heard of students breaking under the pressure of college work and doing strange and dangerous things. Could he really have fractured so badly...
Thoughts Chelonian: a poem
**Thoughts Chelonian** _by Altivo Overo (copyright 2017)_ Ten hundred hundred times the wandering sun Has darkened, vanished without trace, returned; And though my time grows short at least I know My life is writ in arcane symbols turned ...
Procyon Prowling: alliterative verse
**Procyon Prowling** _by Altivo Overo (copyright 2020)_ In silence she slinks through the silver-dewed garden, Wandering walkways, wishing for sustenance. Her three ring-tailed children thirst in the home den For this...
Harvest Home
**Harvest Home** _by Altivo Overo_ _(copyright 2016)_ The sun glowed like a dying ember behind the silhouetted trees and rooftops of Westvale. Birds nattered to each other in the dusk as they settled in for the night. The first stars, boldest and...
Rabbit Food
**Rabbit Food** _by Altivo Overo_ _(copyright 2009)_ Phil leaned back in his chair and stretched, then rubbed his tired eyes. He squinted at the digital clock on the shelf above the monitor and blinked. Two in the morning? Enough of this leveling...
Beyond Mundane Horizons: A Change of Pace
**Beyond Mundane Horizons: A Change of Pace** _by Altivo Overo _(Copyright 2012) Naryssa sat in the entrance to her den, staring out into the long meadow grass with distaste. Time for a change, she thought to herself, then curled her...
How Menander Got His Name
# How Menander Got His Name by Altivo Overo (copyright 2020) The ancient winged horse, descendant of Pegasus himself, stood dozing in the shade when two foals, Dusk and Zeb, approached and stood before him. The shuffle of their hooves awakened the...
Coyote's Voice: A Fable of Creation
**Coyote's Voice** _by Altivo Overo (copyright 2015)_ In the dawn of time, ever so long ago, after Mother Gaia sang the world into existence with all its oceans, lakes and rivers, mountains, plains and forests, she made the creatures to be her...