The Noxious Change
"So you thought to catch yourself a little fox spirit." the voice booms--a female's, filled with tones of wine's glow and triumph's flame. "Thought to make yourself a big man, a monster-hunter. Had yourself a little _kitsune-gari_." He lies pinned...
Old Home, Part 6
"What do you know?" Neil asked. "Who are you?" "_I am..._ _no one anymore. Just an old coyote, among his own, here in the desert._ _I had a name, but I have given it up--for it no longer suits me. You may call me 'Old Man', if you please, for I am...
Old Home, Part 5
The hood kicked up into the air as the pickup rammed into a stray revenant that had been limping along amidst the cactus. "Woo!" Kinsey yelled, pumping her fist in the air and flicking her wiper blades. "Teach you to run the Border! Yeehaw!" Neil...
Old Home, Part 4
It was a surreal sensation. Neil stood there in that kitchen, an alien expression of indifference crossing his face. For a moment, he had been a machine. For a moment, just before landing the killing blow--he had been disconnected from empathy,...
Old Home, Part 3
Neil clambered up to the second floor hall, his undead pursuers hot on his heals. They ran maddeningly, shuffling onto all fours and padding after him like dogs up the stairs. _Think, you're cornered, think. Don't go to your room, you locked it--it'll...
Old Home, Part 2
Despite the monstrous, pulsing infection running through his forearm, Neil maintained a degree of clarity, that told him to be cautious, as he stepped out into the hall. Some ungodly elevator music was playing faintly as he poked the door open and...
Old Home
Neil slugged down the hardest thing he could find from behind the counter, wincing as he surveyed the torn-up bar room. Tables lay split in half, toppled on their side with drinks smashed all over the hardwood floor, amidst the mutilated corpses of...
The Furry's Burden
Desiring some kind of ascent, or uplifting from the human race, I picked a tail and coat of fur. One to properly accentuate my taste, For lithe frame, cleverness... and grace. I wanted to be free--from a society Of cheats, preachers, and smiling...
Unpleasantries, II
"Absolutely unacceptable." "What?" "She's sapient wildlife. A fox woman." "She was half-dead on the front doormat, for god's sakes Walson!" "Do you even understand the danger of keeping one in your presence, young master? What this beast can do to...
Unpleasantries
"Serviced into being a Zorii. Disgusting. Leave her to her piss and stench." he said, disgusted with the woman, as she laid their idly in the street, sniffing herself and moaning uncomfortably. She'd not remembered what she'd been doing, and her...
[SCRAP] The Adam of Foxes
The hot splatter spreads across your backside, and the change begins. You find your hair, mussed and thickening with spooge, and run your fingers through it as it darkens to black, and spreads like wildfire up your ears and down your back. Your entire...
[SCRAP] An Argument With "God"
You stagger back from the booming voice that fills your head. Though the creature does not move its mouth, its 'voice' is around and 'in' you, permeating the creature's surroundings. The once-angel stands, still surveying her transfigured self in...