Low Mumbling (Otherwise Untitled)

Story by Moriar on SoFurry

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#75 of Short Stories

A pair of sisters fail to converse.


~ The taller rabbit stared into the face of her sister, struggling to bring words to her breath. Alongside them both, family and friends they'd never really known shuffled to the exit in the back of the room. The funeral parlor was sinking into an oppressive silence, and the fascade of courage was crumbling without any tasks or stories to occupy the moments.

~ The shorter rabbit, the elder, struggled to not cry as their mother's funeral concluded.

~ Her shoulders slumping against the inside of the ill fitting suit jacket, watching down to her sibling, the younger sister could only muster, "I have no words for this."

Biscuits from Grace (Otherwise Untitled)

~ Greg leaned back into the bench seat of the diner, his patience extended towards watching the sun rise from below the treeline across the patch of prairie. He glanced to his plate, well established to be empty, and over to Linda's. The jackalope,...

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Detention (Otherwise Untitled)

~ The phoenix could see two things in her cell that were quite out of the ordinary. Remaining persistently in her line of view was the duct tape haphazardly around her beak, sealing it shut. The other matter was also heard, as the naked wolf sat a few...

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Glazed and Stubborn (Otherwise Untitled)

~ The mule set the tiny clay sheep and glaze covered brush down on the table of the ceramics workshop as he fixed the husky with a glare. "I don't recall asking your opinion.", raising his left hand into a fist between himself and the husky, "..and I'm...

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