Brock Bawk
"Dammit," Rock said as he looked through the fridge one more time. At this point it was a matter of wishful thinking. As much as he'd talked up making the special birthday cake for his friend Bruce, it'd be a tragedy to admit he hadn't...
Stuck Again
Cyrus, or rather his knot, became the focus of a lot of conversations during the days after his meeting with Lyle, who was well known as the number one size queen of the shipping yard. But Cyrus didn't care at all about the flirtatious offers...
Stuck on You
The warehouse was not deserted yet, but the closing whistle would blast soon and things were wrapping up. With everyone thinking of the upcoming weekend and what they had to finish before the shipping yard would be locked down, nobody noticed a...
He's bigger than you might expect.
Certain conversations with owls put me on edge. The first time I ever "got" someone by accident, it was an owl. He surprised me by turning his head all the way around at a moment when I wasn't expecting it. I tended to avoid owls for a few years after...
I'll pop in and out for a quick visit!
I had only known Bruce for a few days before I started spending the nights perched in the tree that grew over his sett's main entrance. He thought of it as his tree, and at the beginning so did I, which is why I asked him for permission. "If some of...
Break Time at Brunk's Hardware
Rasmus sighed and looked at the clock again. He swore; it was fifteen minutes earlier than he hoped it would be. Working in his dad's store had a way of making that fifteen minutes feel like an hour. "Lunch, lunch, lunch," he thought to himself as he...
Amoyre
I remember the first time I had someone mythical. I remember her very well. For whatever reason, a fluke of demographics, not many of the species lumped together as 'mythic' for who knows what ancient reasons settled here near Tischwood. I myself...
Lead your Flight Away
The world, sometimes called the Great Ground by the natives, was a large continent surrounded on all sides by an ocean that no Praxian had ever claimed to have crossed. They were no strangers to water, since Great Ground had many lakes of various...
Gary the dragon
In the darkness of my den, I woke because I thought I heard a moan. It took me a few seconds to realize it had been me. What I'd give for the ability to sleep through the night, these days...well, as members of my family would be happy to remind me,...
Into (and out of) the Hole
Into (and out of) the Hole By Hauke The mine's operations were coming to a pause. It never really shut, not all the way. There was a night shift and a day shift, with perhaps an hour's worth of coming and going between the two. The day's workers...
Basement Billiards
The sun was about to set over the long row of fraternities and sororities, disappearing behind the peak of the triangular roof of Sigma Mu. At the opposite end of the street, looking west toward the setting sun through a window of the upper floors of...
Tussle
I love the old gyms, the ones left over from the previous era. They're very rare, scattered about in what's left of the old concrete islands. You have to go to them to find decent steam rooms and saunas, and they still have water showers, not those...