Stories tagged “animals”
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Like Father, Like Son
Man desired to extend his reach, and made a spear, and with the spear he slew, with sharp flint and steel and armor-piercing bullet. Man desired to extend his thought, so he made a Mind, and with that Mind he slew, with targeting laser and blasting bea...
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The Arrogant Wolves
The rabbit hopped around the cage oblivious to the wolves on the other side. They were stalking slowly up to the gate where they noticed the gap just wide enough to shimmy through. The salivation dripping from their eager jawls waiting in anticipation ...
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Tragedy Over the Power Station
The airliner was nearing home, its passengers eager to reach their destination. Stewards collected the discarded peanut packages and the tiny little liquor bottles as each passenger prepared themselves to land. “Ladies and gentlemen, please note ...
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The Dog Walker
I’m a dog walker. All kinds, big and small, I take dogs for a walk and let them socialize with other dogs. Normally I don’t listen in to their conversations, but lately they have been getting weird. There’s been talk about why they ha...
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Mariner's Thirteen aka the Fellowship of the Woods
A ragged group of animals huddled around a small fire. The woods were dark. Night had fallen, but that was nothing to them. They had bigger problems. Made up of a trio of raccoons, a pair of squirrels, one irritable bobcat, a lost ferret, and six hares...
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Benny
” Benny, Breakfast!” The sounds and smells of breakfast awoke me from my cozy and warm bed. I let out a yawn and stretched to loosen my tired muscles. So tired..I thought, my mind clouded with images of the past few days. Moving, leaving my friends...
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Jeffie and the Leader of the Pack
“You might as well come down, ya stinking varmit,” growled the pack leader. “We’re going to eat you sooner or later.” Jeffie the cat looked down from his perch in the tree. He’d been there three days. Despite the nag...
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Breakfast Gone Bad
Fur matted to his scrawny body from the rain, the ragged little cat made his way up the hill. Vultures watched in the trees above waiting for their morning meal. The cats head hung low, his legs dragging. Reaching the top he collapsed, rolled over on h...
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The Skinless Human
“What is it?” “I don’t know.” The two kittens sat staring at the odd little thing on the ground. “It looks like a skinless human,” whispered Jeffie. “A really little human,” replied Bindi. Jeffie po...
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Bite of the Werecat
“There’s a werewolf in the barn!” called Jeffie. “It’s dead and really stinky!" Bindi raced off to see the smelly lump lying in the hay. Half it’s face and butt were missing. “Are you sure it’s a werewol...
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Franklin, king of the animals.
The story begins before humans even came to be. My name is Franklin, and I invented the human race. I am, what a mere simpleton would call a turtle. Yes a turtle. You thought pigs where intelligent. Well my friends I invented pigs. And no, I do not ha...
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Amos Thibodeau and the Circus Parade
Amos Thibodeau Jr. had never been to the circus, or for that matter, much of anywhere outside of the bayou. When word came down that The Clyde Beatty, Cole Brothers Circus would be stopping in his town, naturally he got excited over the prospect. The a...
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The fox
The fox awoke surprised, in a state of shock, he was staring to the new environment around him, this white stuff in the floor, giving an spectral glow to the still night. He got out of his home, in the hole in the roots of that old tree in the garden o...
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crab walk gridlock
The scraggly kid poked his brain out the water at me, bobbing up and down in the murk green salty sea like a floaty barnacle. His swim trunks ballooned around like underwater rocket pants, and he bubble-barbled fishy pleases at me, who was Queen of the...
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Cat/Ophelia: Introductions
“Be cautious and examine any business plan,” the fortune cookie told me, and I swallowed the hot chocolate in my mouth before chewing the cookie. “Yarbleck,” Duck said. He sat next to Yeti, and on either side of me sat Polar Bea...
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Cat/Ophelia: Clown
“Parts,” Polar Bear replied casually. I looked at him. “Which parts?” Polar Bear replied, “Spirit.” Hawk replied, “Capacity.” Duck replied, “Stomach.” Yeti replied, “Body.” “...
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Cat/Ophelia: Into Earth
Clown was the best. “Cat, since you were the one who worked with Clown the most, I want you to go to the humans and find us someone who can fill Clown’s place.” Polar Bear looked at me as he talked. I nodded my head. “All right....
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yeahbut
One cool autumn day; deep in the wood, a wise ol’ owl approached three rabbits. “You should thank your father,” said the owl to the littlest one, “for giving you food, every day.” “Yeahbut,” said the rabbit, “he makes me to eat my veget...
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Aloof, Aloft
Mr. Beaver stood at his penthouse window and stirred his brandy with a lonely claw, watching the animals below mingle like ants among the fallen trees. He sighed to himself, whiskers twitching to the beat of Carmina Burana on the gramophone, a mashed c...
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Left the Brandy...
Mr. Beaver lit a fresh cigar and walked with Chris Hare through the hubbub of the forest floor, amid packs of rodents hurrying to and fro, beams hauled overhead, and trees moaning at the edge of collapse. As Hare talked, Mr. Beaver silently mourned the...
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Papers, Please
Mr. Beaver kicked at a pile of leaves and took a puff from his cigar. “Foreman!” he cried. A harried-looking beaver in the distance looked up quickly and jogged over. “Mr. Beaver, sir, good you came down. The rat’s over here, we just got him ou...