ET3: The Jungle
Horatch lifted his front legs and used both pedipalps to tap out his thanks on the swine's bristly flank. The pig grunted, dodged a low-hanging vine, and trotted on. If he knew the T'rant hitched a lift, he didn't signal, but he made no effort to...
The Earth Tigers
**Chapter 1:- Spider City** The jungle shifted like waves in the early sunlight. The movement that was ever present in the upper canopy, the activities of myriad birds and beetles, rippled across emerald fronds and made a seascape of the treetops....
The Going Forth Of Uadjet
Uadjet guarded an empty temple. She stood in the shadowed niche and watched the dust motes dance in the sunlight for enough years to eat the stones away, to pit the bricks and make softer edges of the once-sharp rectangular doorways. Golden light on...
Live Cargo
"I don't take on live cargo." Cici reached under the collar of her jumpsuit and scratched the dense fur beneath. "What else you got?" The spaceport lighting made a kiln of her radiation resistant suit. She flattened triangle Corgi ears against her...
ET2: The Villiage
Milyi dashed through the village on two, swift brown feet. The tents blurred around her, a stream of soft colors against the green of the surrounding forest. Her heart beat a steady rhythm, matching her quick steps. She raced through the...
Beast
She left a message for her husband on the morning of the massacre. Askeila kept her voice as flat as possible, kept the tremors away by digging her claws into the fur of her thighs while she told him exactly where she'd be. Where he could find her....
Much Ado About Bluebottles
Episode One: "Hurry up, Tr'lia!" LiLi sang over her shoulder as she hopped through the market's wide aisles. Her clawed feet stirred little puffs of dust as they scrabbled for purchase. "Come on!" "I'm coming." Tr'lia sighed. She clutched the netted...
Much Ado About Bluebottles: Episode Two
"Plants!" LiLi scoffed for the twentieth time. "He's selling plants, here!" She nibbled on her bit of roast fungus and clucked furiously. "They're cut off from the nodes, LiLi," Tr'lia said with more calm than she felt. "They're probably harmless....
STI- The Toad's Prophecy
The toad had slept in her yard for seven seasons. He moved very little, spoke even less, and aside from a brief week when the snows covered his warty hide and she feared he'd freeze solid, had been no trouble at all. Millie's friends had suggested she...
Episode Three: MAABB
P'rao flicked his tail and stamped one, clawed foot into the dust. Overhead, a gaggle of long-necked shoppers blotted out the sun, honking to one another as they passed each table and barely missing a collision with one of the vendors perched over his...
The Crime
The Crime Milyi stared down the path where Rani had fled. She inhaled the settling dust and felt a gloom settle over her. Her chest tightened. She stiffened, stood taller, and made her way around to the front of her home. Grandmother and Kaiga...
ET5: Milyi's Decision
Horatch watched the hunters come. He'd tucked deep into the nearest rut when the girl screamed, and now his turret eyes scanned the jungle. The fronds shifted on all sides. The ring of humans closed in like a noose. Milyi still lay in the vines. Her...