His name was Raul, and he was a gnoll.Sometimes people joked about the rhyme. Not often. Raul was seven and a half feet tall and painfully thin in the way of gnolls. Tall, spotty, with clawed four-toed footpaws, a short dark tail and yellowed fangs in his dark muzzle. Despite his cadaverous furry build he was all wiry muscle, broad across the shoulders and strong enough to pick a man up off the ground and break him over his knee.He'd broken a few men, and women. Eaten others. Just the same, he w

Ahrenz the khardaki thought he had it all figured out.He was more than seven feet tall, muscular save for the bit of a belly you get from an occasional heavy meal. He was regally handsome from his padded digitigrade feet to his tufted tail to his deep gold mane. His battle scars only added to his looks. Ahrenz made the ladies (and some men) swoon, and he knew it.Ahrenz was a guard at the fortress of Ryan's Reach, the middle of the three forts guarding the western approaches of Monstertown. "Grey

"Next prisoner, clerk," said the magistrate"Yes, your honor," purred the clerk. While the magistrate was a human, in this case a captain of the city guard serving for the afternoon as a judge, the clerk at his right hand was a gray-furred hestan catman. The cat waved to a khardaki lionman more than seven feet tall and that cat dragged a protesting woman in by the collar."I don't know why I am here," said the woman. "I'm a legitimate -""Shut it," said the judge.They were two days down the trade r

That's what the sign by the mall court door read. Standing by the red velvet guide rope was a woman in a white fox costume, with a green tight fitting dress on over that. Word had spread quickly and the crowd formed into a line, guided by her gestures. As the parents in the line passed by, every male and most of the female eyes settled on the fox suit lady and came to the same conclusion.It was not a lady in a white fox suit. It was a white fox lady in a green dress, and she was curvy in all the

You are a sleek gray hestan catman, and you are a thief. Oh, you work other jobs, most often as a roustabout on a caravan or a does-anything worker at a caravan stop. You work hard, and your cheerful demeanor makes you a popular cat. But mostly, you are a thief. All those caravan and caravansary jobs are so you can work out who is best to pilfer from.The best time is when the caravan has reached the caravansary and the passengers are climbing out of the wagons. You help a little old lady down fr

There was a large bulge in the skunkette lamia's thickest coil. Without a doubt the skunk-snake had swallowed a humanoid, and one of fair size; from the bulge of the head, past the widening of the shoulders and down the body eventually to the legs and feet, the bulge was close to seven feet long. Her meal had been swallowed head first, as the head-bulge was closer to the lamia's fluffy skunk tail than the rest.Uvuzi was partly coiled up on the wood floor, the bulge of swallowed prey to the fron

Her name was Carolyn Walker, and she was Very Naughty.She arrived at her office that day, three weeks before Christmas, and settled down with a sigh behind her desk. There was a sheaf of snail mail and an equally large collection of missives on her computer, all much the same: applications for loans, documents pertaining to federal grants that supported the loans, and desperate messages from homeowners as to the state of said loans.There was a remarkable amount of money to be made in issuing loa

It was three weeks before Christmas, and as usual Tim Lawton was working late.He arrived at his thirty-eighth-floor office at eight in the morning, spent the day directing company policy and dealing with senior employees, took a nap on the day bed in the adjoining room and then was back at it until late in the evening. One of the benefits of being the company CEO was no one could tell you it was wrong to take a nap at work. No one else was allowed to, but rank hath its privileges.You don't get t

Uragh's original plan was to take a trip to the City of Greyhawk, visit the wizard he'd been told about, then head right back to his usual haunts west of Verbobonc. That was not how it worked out.First he met Shinefeather the gryphon and Captain Varr, two new lovers, and decided to linger in the area at least until Shinefeather's heat passed. The opportunity to empty his balls into the gryphoness several times a day was not one a healthy young feral gul would pass up, and every month or two he k