Natiq and Salome - momentum, part 1
By Strega
 
"That is ridiculous," Salome the dolphin chittered. "You could never do that."
She floated in the tide pool next to her lover Natiq, a leopard seal easily twice her size. After testing out dry land mating and water mating, they settled on tide pools as the best compromise. Natiq loved having her crawl atop him on dry land and impale herself, but Salome worried she would slide off and bruise herself on the rocks. Salome

I was alone at my burrow. It was past midnight. I had just finished my work for the day, and I was cleaning up my lab room before going to sleep.
I was working on some digestion simulations. Being the smart and cunning rabbit I was, I had been able to get a bottle of hydrochloric acid power cleaner from humans. Hydrochloric acid is naturally present in the gastric juices of all the animals, so I had used it to prepare some gastric juices simulations in glass jars, and I was doing experiments wit

A young redcurrant shrub held fast valiantly despite the rampant deer that surged through it. Unfortunately the act of shrubbery valour was instantly forgotten as a full-grown bear trampled over the plant after his prey. For a moment it looked like the predator would field the day, but a duo of stout birches ended the chase with their unequal treatment of the participants that ran between them. The bear, stuck tight between the stout trees, could only roar in frustration as the deer hopped into

The
inn at the end of the roadBy Strega
Miss
Paula ran her inn with a firm hand. The food was good, the upstairs
rooms were always clean, and the beer and wine weren't watered.
Alcohol was served only between noon and nine in the evening and
anyone showing signs of getting messily drunk was politely asked to
leave. It wasn't the fanciest place to stay but it was safe, it was
reliable, and that's all some people needed. Their little burg, all
five hundred of them, was lucky enough to be in civi

A
big fish
By
Strega
It
was Bob's third day at work and he showed up bright and early with a
smile on his face. He didn't care that a sea park's interns, like
him, spent most of their time sweeping, picking up trash and cleaning
animal pens. Most of the sea life did their business in the water
but not all did and he didn't mind being the guy with the flat head
shovel and a bucket. As for the ones who did it in the water, well,
someone had to clean the filters and that was him too. He'd always