_ **Hard Labour** _
I glared at the short straw in my palm. Again. As hard as I willed it to, it refused to grow longer. "...Do I _really_have to?"
"Listen, the straws have spoken," Manny replied, beaming his pleasure for the longer one in his grasp....
Against All Odds Universe, Corben, Fox, Macro, Micro, Size Difference, Slice of Life, Tirrell
_ **Knock Knock** _
'Cut through the apartment complex Danny, they said. It'll shave ten minutes off your walk to the station, they said. Man, _they_ were chattin' some utter shite with all that. Never mind this place being a maze of identical three...
Against All Odds Universe, Bear, Corben, Macro, Micro, Short Story, Size Difference, Tirrell, Wolf
_ **Part 6** _
Sunday evening wound up being the perfect time for our first trip out for dinner. Compared to our first pass of Ibarra's earlier that day... it still wasn't quiet, for sure, but it'd got way less busy. From what I'd seen of Arlone so...
Against all Odds, Character Development, Corben, Fox, Macro, Micro, Red Panda, Tirrell, world building
_ **Wrecked** _
I wanted to die. Lucky as I might've been not to have done so already. Here in the dark, up in the hills in the middle of only gods knew where, I sat staring past the cracks in my windscreen. Better that than at the petrified polecat...
Against All Odds Universe, Badger, Corben, Macro, Micro, Polecat, Short Story, Size Difference, Tirrell
_ **Boiling Point** _
My walk from the station was more like a swim, the swampy summer morning air even more overwhelming and oppressive than the metro journey that'd got me there. A journey made up of three trains, two transfers, and nearly an entire...
Against All Odds Universe, Badger, Corben, Gecko, Macro, Micro, Size Difference, Slice of Life, Tirrell
_ **Lost & Found** _
The air stifled so very much. Even on a morning that was not so hot, how difficult it was to breathe came as the first thing to my notice upon disembarking the train.
To walk through the streets, the crowded, overloaded streets,...
Against All Odds Universe, Chameleon, Corben, Lizard, Macro, Micro, Size Difference, Slice of Life, Tirrell
_ **Laundry Day** _
A mistake, a blunder, a five-star screw-up: whichever way you dressed it, avoiding my laundry for as long as I had done wouldn't be repeated. Each hefty haul of my overflowing wash basket was a struggle, sending scrapes and grinds...
Against All Odds Universe, Corben, Fox, Macro, Micro, Raccoon, Size Difference, Slice of Life, Tirrell
_ **Shallow Goals** _
"Got you, Cloud!" I almost choked on a mouthful of chlorinated water, yelling out so fast after climbing back to the surface. "You're it!"
"No way!" my brother cried above all the splashing and yapping in the pool around us....
Against All Odds Universe, Corben, Macro, Micro, Otter, Short Story, Size Difference, Tirrell, request
Theatre of War
"Move, move!"
People rushed past me, running for their lives.
"Keep going!"
Screams of terror cut the air.
"Don't stop!"
A clap of thunder overtook us all. The asphalt rumbled. The screaming got louder.
I fought hard to stay...
Against all Odds, Corben, Macro, Micro, Short Story, Size Difference, Squirrel, Tirrell, Violence, Wolf, stomp
_ **Rooftops** _
_For Jidza10_
"You feeling okay, Jed?"
I glanced up at Mitch from my doodle pad. "Why?"
"You've not touched your lunch is all." The wolf gestured his fork down to the spicy chicken I must've picked out for myself, congealing in its...
Badger, Bear, Corben, Husky, Macro, Micro, Short Story, Size Difference, Tirrell, Wolf, bullying, cloakers, request
_ **Slim** _
These makroudhs were tiny. Like, mind-blowingly. Six diamond-shaped pastries sat arranged on a square plate; the centrepiece of the hand-sized tray I was carrying across the restaurant.
I wondered, how in the world Dad managed to bake...
Against All Odds Universe, Character Development, Corben, Fennec, Gecko, Macro, Micro, Short Story, Size Difference, Tirrell, skateboarding, slice of life