Kobold Krafts (in the rain)
Rain pelted the scratched and dingy windshield of the barely functioning 1997 Acura Integra, its cabin silent and musty from the lack of a working air conditioner or radio. Mercifully, the hazard lights still dimly blinked to warn any who passed that...
Stripped Bolts and Leaking Lines
[This wouldn't have happened without Fawkesish, hit up that page and get binge reading.](https://fawkesish.sofurry.com/) Tearing metal and tortured steel wailed in the small space below a thick industrial clamp, steel shavings bouncing off the heavy...
Kobold Krafts (at work)
I was supposed to have double upload Kobold Krafts and Afterburner Aftercare but a minor flood ate up a lot of my writing time at home. The latter is about halfway written so look forward to that! As always, if you want more scalie goodness, feel free...
Kobold Krafts (in the pool)
_Tink tink tink…_ "If I don't move… she won't see me…" It wasn't the first time Yelz had lied to herself; eggrolls were good without sauce, close-toed shoes looked good on clawed paws, green went well with pink, or it definitely wasn't getting...
Kobold Krafts (at the store)
If exhaustion had a manifestation, its avatar would be poor Yelz. The kobold's subspecies wasn't ever meant for nocturnal life, yet here she was hitting the hay at two in the morning and finding half the sunlight gone by the time she awoke. The past...
Kobold Krafts (in the sky)
The pervasive beat of Wild Greg's had become nothing more than a backdrop for Yelz, her tail twitching in time to the angry rhythm pounding through the floor beneath her office chair. Several 'Statistics for Dummies' lay beneath her bare pink paws, a...
Birds of a Feather
"No, that's _not_ how this works, you broken condom. You brain fried vacuum suckers tampered with your AI's logic board power supply and that's what sent it haywire." Jack leaned his head back against the cool wall of his office turned bedroom,...
Live by the Roark, Die by the Roark
Legal matters were a funny thing in known space, the twisting galactic corn maze of law being one that many simply refused to try and navigate. Take, for example, a stolen candy bar, a delectable Rimbar from Argon Inc. in fact. A small length of...
Star Blind
Life hadn't been kind to Anderson Milay. Born to an austere family on a backwater planet where the only hope to pay your bills or put food on the table was to break your back for a mining company. Or turn to crime, but corporate enforcement knew better...
Parade
Consciousness returned to a tired, sore, but oh so satisfied Lix with all the speed of slow-moving molasses. Warmth permeated the cold-blooded reptile, twisted up in Jack's limbs as she was, with her head on his slowly rising chest. The man was rudely...
Kobold Krafts
For those who have awoken in a tent, they know there are only two states that greet you. Perfectly rested as a kid on Christmas morning, or crusty and wondering what year it was. Yelz found herself in a strange half limbo between the two. Euphoric...
Holes
Lix was not an easy person to surprise, so when Jack eased the Gerthtrude out into the Great Black with nary a creak of the hull or pop of a rivet, she had to offer a curious tilt of her head. Wide vessels often creaked and groaned like the elderly...