A story of novella length or shorter.
The ABDU campus slipped behind the closely-packed shops of Ardenthill’s downtown core, leaving only the clocktower visible in Monserrat’s rear view mirror. She found herself doing a lot of looking in that mirror – more than was advisable, considering how pedestrian friendly the downtown streets were. On her tenth look at her fiancé, Monserrat marveled …
Nina took a deep breath, holding it as she carefully swept her stylus across the bright purple eyes staring out of her drawing tablet. Double tapping the zoom tool pulled the tablet’s view out to show the entire fox girl, who’s eyes Nina had just made expressive and shiny. And I do mean the entire …
Jenny watched her wall, where branch-dappled sunlight danced in time with the spring breeze. Despite her worries of being rejected by Brooke when she was Little, everything had gone well, even up to wetting her diaper. Navi had that diaper off her and was wrapping her in a fresh one, while Jenny used her passivity …
Monserrat took a moment to take in the view from her latest client’s corner office. The top floor of Ardenthill’s second tallest building commanded a gorgeous view of the trees rising from the river confluence that had long been known simply as “The Branch”. As one of the only two buildings in town that could …
For the fourth time, energy built up in Jenny and sent her out of her babysitter’s arms. After the first three attempts, Clarissa had gotten wise to the Little girl’s shenanigans, and threaded her fingers together. All that accomplished, was forcing Jenny to wrench her way out with real force, to an indignant sound from …
Keeley’s night had been one of the roughest she’d known – including those during her worst benders. As her sunburn settled in, every waking moment was painful, itchy agony. Dreams were no escape either, the three headed bird person was waiting for her there. On another occasion Keeley might have felt bad about how many …
Out of the many social situations a person might encounter, an awkward silence was one of the least familiar to Monserrat. That she was sitting at her dining room table with her polycule – the people she most loved in all the world – made the general sense of unease all the more bizarre. That …
Keeley woke the next day to find out that Vidette was on baby duty, and that her naughty babysitter had been up all night. It was tempting to be a brat and wake Trish up. Keeley still remembered being dragged out of bed at the start of her trip and decided to spare her girlfriend. …
Physical exhaustion was unable to save Keeley from what she would come to call Burning Dreams. Not that she’d expected the Playa to be quiet at night, but expecting a festival atmosphere and sleeping through one were different things. Keeley’s dreams were a blender-mixed amalgam of action movies, memories of rave parties, and the story …
9:45 AM – Morning Classes Spring had breathed life into the city of Ardenthill, and nowhere more than the carefully tended landscaping of the ABDU campus. Wildflowers budded cheekily from patches of dirt and between flagstones. Their fragile beauty heralded of a riot of color that was ready to burst from the newly cleaned flowerbeds …