Batter and Choices (Otherwise Untitled)

Story by Moriar on SoFurry

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#225 of Short Stories

A collie regrets.


~ The collie was a flurry of engagement and seized opportunities as the morning progressed, hands deftly gliding from the tasks of getting dressed to the interruptions of pancake cooking. Her eyes wove a path of focus through the kitchen and bedroom as her thoughts strove the keep panic to a minimum with each glance at the clock revealing less and less time available to the completions.

~ At length, she found herself fully dressed and seated before a plate stacked tall with pancakes of varying shape and degree of being burnt. The morning came to a halt as she encountered the flavor of the first bite.

~ "That wasn't baking powder.", she realized.

Piercing Alarm (Otherwise Untitled)

~ The basilisk opened his eyes to take in the night around him with a gurgling sigh. His bedroom had the pale glow of a enchanted slaying weapon, his arm was resting in the spot of his bed where his wife wasn't, and silence from his alarm radio...

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Pilot's Dance (Otherwise Untitled)

~ "Please excuse the bumpy ride, but my indicators say that all passengers are strapped in.", crackling over the intercomm as the outwardly scorched personnel carrier started to find lift and navigate its way into the more open skies, "And the folks...

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A Song for the Time (Otherwise Untitled)

~ The coyote held his violin by the neck with one hand while using the other to tap his comms device awake and lean it up against the violin's case on the table. Having confirmed that it was still connected and active, he settled back down into a seat...

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