Meeting of the Minds
A quiet evening in, listening to the rain and far-off thunder as I sat on my couch, eyes closed to bar any distraction as I practiced my telepathy. The diviners had told me my powers lay elsewhere; something to do with mathematics utterly outside of...
The Diapercock
I'd barely come home from work before my bear was trying to foist the new diapers on me. "Strip. Pad. Now." I ignored the orders, put down my briefcase and gave him a kiss. "I love you too," I said. "Shall we head to the bedroom then?" "Only if you...
A Stray Snowball
I tell ya, you never know what a new day's gonna bring ya, not even if yer life's the same day in and day out. The world just finds a way to throw new stuff at ya. My favorite day like that happened not too long ago. I'm not too long out of school...
Hog Anus
"You there, with the anus!" I froze in place. _How did they know?_ I was fully dressed! It should have been hidden! I tried not to turn around, tried not to react. Maybe they meant someone else. Anuses are like opinions after all--everyone _has_ one....
The Scent of Pork
Sometimes you want to go out and eat someone. Other times it just happens. I was only trying to get some studying done. The dormmates were having another of their rowdy parties, so I decided to duck out and hit the library instead. I'd never spent...
Making Memories
> `03:15 >` **Hey remember that time we went to the movies?** The lion's message was waiting for me when my alarm went off that morning, and I looked at my phone in confusion. We hadn't met IRL yet--though we'd been growing more intimate online, he...
Flip 2: Blue Moon Back Room
The next day, you're walking around campus with a satchel slung over your back. You can't wait to get started. The satchel is full of copies of your menu--the list of all the ways anyone who wants to interact with you can change you. All they have to...
Franks
I sat by my otter on the sparsely-populated bleachers, waiting for the game to start. Mattock's softball league was just starting the season and even though I was far too sedentary to join him--and Darkwater wouldn't be able to make most of the...
The Castoffs
It was just starting to snow when I got to the mall, just a few minutes before I was due to service one of the vending machines. Business had been unusually brisk this season, and the machines had all been in place for a few years now and were starting...
This is Normal
The fat skunk boarded the bus, clad only in a massive diaper that gave it a waddling gait even more pronounced than its weight alone would give it. A few people looked up to see whose steps were rocking the bus, but their eyes soon returned to their...
Flip 1: Jacob
You are Flip, a boxtaur (a boar-fox hybrid taur), and you're just getting your stuff unpacked in your new dorm suite. It's your first day on campus and you're looking forward to getting to know everyone. You're taking a break now, sprawled out on the...
Low Breeding
The bite of winter on my nose and the crunch of snow under my paws were a gentle distraction from the feast in the margrave's mansion--my familiar was out hunting. Ever since we'd bonded we'd shared one soul across two bodies, but there were times...