The Order of Things
Don had never taken guff gracefully, even when it was the way of the world. Maybe especially then. The wolf woman, coming toward them on the sidewalk, had just snapped her fingers and pointed at the side of the road, expecting them to step into the...
The Last Aspect
It was the start of the fourth year of war when Dr. Panmoy showed Altaega's design to General Stout. The general scowled afterward, and Dr. Panmoy couldn't interpret the look. The general _always_ scowled. As a kit, Panmoy's image of a general had...
The Admission Interview
Sister Elizabeth Ignatius gestured at the lawn in front of the park bench, the bench in turn in front of a tasteful fountain statuary on the grounds of St. Mary's Academy. "Sit." The cat woman stood all of five foot three, but the taller girl she...
Knight Protector (Part 2)
_(Read [Part 1](http://www.sofurry.com/view/464374).)_ The mouse ran a hand through his short hair. "Now, I wouldn't want to go leaping to conclusions." "What other conclusion _is_ there?" "I'm not sure," he said uncomfortably. "I think," Muari...
Knight Protector (Part 1)
As Lord Jedric held the scroll aloft in his right paw, the gold threads in the royal parchment glinted in the late afternoon sun. Most of the crowd assembled in the town square held their breath; those who rolled their eyes had the grace to do so...
Smoke
When Cyril had pitched this trip to Warby Gorge to National Geo's editor, he'd expected to get at least one cover-worthy shot. The rabbit just hadn't expected it to be a story about an earthquake. His working title had been "Beauty's Last Days," the...
Goddess, Chapter 1
"Why, does that martini you're ignoring have real gin in it? You're a wild man, Russ." "This is what literature professors do, Marvin." He pointedly refused to look up from the novel resting in his lap. "They read." "You're not a literature...
Goddess (Chapter 2)
"Sorry I wasn't able to make it last night, Rittenhouse. Something came up with the wife. You know how _that_ is." No, not from direct experience, but he'd give Dean Kerkhoff the benefit of the doubt. "Nothing serious, I hope." The raccoon waved his...
Saida & Autumn 1: The Beanstalk
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Teacher's Pet #2: Fangirls and Stalkers
"So since you have a research question-hopefully a solid one, after today's discussion-you should know what you need to do by next session." Ms. Thorferra paused, looking around the class. A mouse woman in the back of the giant section, not too far...
Teacher's Pet #1: Giants and Townies
"Between now and our next session, take the list you created today and pick three topics from it you'd like to explore, then spend ten minutes free-writing about each topic." As she spoke, the professor's marker traveled across the whiteboard, leaving...
Teacher's Pet #3: Bars and Ruins
Just ignore them. Everybody gets a little abuse. That's what everyone says, right? God, _she'd_ said that. She'd just treated online harassment as something you can walk away from. Just like not playing team games. But this wasn't a few people...