Serval and Sheep (Chapter 32)
Four-leaf clovers bring good luck, or so the old superstition goes. If you just so happen to find one, that in of itself is proof of your fortune, given how rare they are. A 1 in 10,000 chance. But four leaf clovers are only rare because they're...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 31)
If you are a student at Noah's Arc Academy, that automatically makes you a friend of Hafsa's, or so goes the saying. There is not a creature alive that the serval would not welcome with open arms. This is what makes a popular girl a popular girl, after...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 30)
"Brian!" The rock dove barely shuts the front door when he is pounced on by two squealing children. His little stepbrother Cooper leaps all the way up to his neck, painfully digging his claws into his nape while trying to straddle his older bro's...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 29)
"Dude, this is super weird." Marcel mumbles. Elmer nods. "Super fucking weird." "Do you think the smell can set her off? Like, sweat smell?" The two rams glance behind them, where a lanky white tigress sits on a bench, enthralled...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 28)
The end of spring break brings a twofold anguish. The obvious first is the return to the academy. Students come back to their cramped dorms, highlighter-drenched notebooks and morning classes. But the very first day post-spring break is always Species...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 27)
he waiter can't help but smirk at the two felines seated across from each other. Serving at such a classy establishment, he often waits upon many nervous couples having their very first date. Being an otter, he considers himself a romantic, and...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 26)
Miraculously enough, spring break did arrive for the students of Noah's Arc Academy on the first week of April. The annual exodus of animals from the school left only a few dozen stragglers still staying at the dorms, including Hafsa herself. With her...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 24)
Last year, when I became student council secretary, I decided to take the new treasurer Brian out to lunch on a Saturday. As we were both sophomores, and new to the council, it seemed like a good opportunity to get to know each other. This was a...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 23)
Desmond loves his horns more than life itself. While he may curse every aspect of his herbivorous existence, he always thanks the Ethereal Forces That Be for being born a Jacob sheep. The sheep, for as long as the animal has existed, is fodder. They...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 22)
Desmond wonders if somehow, his wool has secretly smelled of catnip his whole life. Or maybe, he had been a cattail in his past life. Why else does he attract such complicated felines? He reminisces miserably on these existential doubts while...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 21)
Hafsa is on top of the world. Just a few weeks ago, she had been contemplating dropping out of school, such was the barrage of drama and humiliation her sophomore year had brought her. Yet here she stands now, with every obstacle that had been thrown...
Serval and Sheep (Chapter 20)
As a child, my favorite days were Sunday, because that's when my father was home. As a renowned anesthesiologist, he worked six days a week and only came home after I had long since been tucked in, so I never really got to see him. But he would always...