A lynx tries to explain (Otherwise Untitled)

Story by Moriar on SoFurry

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#30 of Short Stories

A lynx tries to explain a piece of jewelry to their parents.


~ The lynx blinked back tears, staring down at the plain gold band worn on their finger. The recently acquired ring was polished and naive, yet to accumulate the patina of scratches offered by life.

~ Declining to raise their gaze to meet their parents' glares, the cat's voice stammered out a reply to the inquiry born of confusion, disappointment, and distaste. "...because I love him."

Badger seeks to fix it (Ferret and Badger part 4) (Otherwise Untitled)

~ Death glared down at the badger who's space suit had seen many better days. Various fluids were leaking from various slashes and punctures, some of which she presumed to be blood of the living. The badger glared right back up as the gryphon loomed...

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Things Eventually Break (Ferret and Badger part 3) (Otherwise Untitled)

~ The ferret woke up with a panic in her thoughts and a rough shuddering of her spacecraft. Alarms from the ship's computer kicked in as she was buckling her tool belt and tumbling down the hallway. Whatever had just broken was rapidly getting worse....

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Gryphon Cooks Potatoes, Part 2 (Otherwise Untitled)

~ Midas stood coldly above the crackling skillet of formerly frozen hashbrowns and hot oil. The apartment was fairly close to silent, otherwise. She was alone with her thoughts as they seemed to keep looping back to the same conclusions. The same path...

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