“I – fuck’s sake, I was kidding about the pineapple on pizza thing! Stop it! Don’t–”Gullllp. Down Dorie went, her black bob-cut vanishing between her friend’s jaws. As her shape collapsed into their stomach, they followed up with a big gulp of air. “Oogh. That was a treat.”“Vic, let me out!”Vic rubbed their bloated belly, feeling at her curled-up shape. “And I’m s’posed to do that because?…”“Be

[156 words]This one’s a true story. It’s rambling, too, but shortOne time, they had – not technically a fossil, mind you, but there was this outdoorsy place, a park center or something, and one of the things they had, was an archway fashioned out of an orca’s jaw. It must have been the lower jaw, since there wasn’t a skull attached. It was really well preserved, too, the teeth were still there. It’s possible that it wasn’t the real thing, that it was a m

“One pet for forty liters, huh? Where’s the rest go?”“Well, some of them gets melted into cup size, some of them goes to the stomach, and of course you gotta strain out the indigestibles. I gotta hedge in case someone brings in one that’s light, too.”Two strangers stand in a booth at a farmer’s market. One of them, a wolf, has a rumbly voice. He’s putting on a cold affect. “And you have to keep some to sell.”“You don’t say!

Atys the Great wakes up. Her magic and body are restored, except for a strong hangover.More importantly, though, she’s hungry. If the world were just (oh! if only) then there would be a servant there, ready to feed themself to her, thanking her for the privilege of becoming part of the greatest mage in the land. As things are, none yet recognize her greatness. She is in a mediocre inn, having earned room and board by clearing out an infestation of dire serpents, and then gotten blackout dr

Satsuki stood in line in the heat. A massive sign above her proclaimed that this was BLUEMORN EVAC ZONE – SOUTH TRESSANI. She couldn’t see the start of the line from where she was standing, but she could, finally, see the end; a Constellar hangar base just outside city limits, with furs shuffling in intermittently. Satsuki was a limber cat, having grown up in the low gravity of Bluemorn. Her fur was mostly black, with white spots over one eye and her hands and feet. She’d taken