A Birthday Surprise A gigantic bowl- a drum, really- sat next to a table. Four gallons of milk, a bottle of oil, a stack of egg cartons, a small crate of butter, and several bags of confectioner's sugar sat neatly on the table. Sunlight filtered through the kitchen's bay window, the light broken by the shadows of a neighbor's bare tree. A tall woman was scrunched down, rummaging through the lower shelves of the large pantry. Her blue hair was wrangled in a net as she overturned boxes, cans,

Changing Plans on the Ladybug It was an unusual sight to see a Lalafellin man walking hand in hand with a Hyuran woman thrice his size, even if one ignored her prodigious proportions and revealing dress that left little to the imagination. An even more unusual sight were the mottles of red and black swarming across the whitewashed spires of Limsa Lominsa. The Hyuran woman took care to not step on an errant giant ladybug as the couple approached The Bismarck. A look of disgust crossed her fa

 The sand was warm between her toes as Reyna made her way across the sandy shore of Lake Longhorn towards the clear waters. It was a warm morning, owing to the fair skies above. It was a beautiful day, and the purple-haired catgirl was itching to take full advantage of it. A nice swim in the lake sounded like a fun way to exercise before the heat became unbearable in a few hours. It was already beginning to feel muggy as sweat beaded at her hairline.  Her loose purple hair fell to

Friday Night Horror A blue car pulls into the driveway of a sandy-colored brick house. The roar of the engine was silenced a moment before the door opened. Evangeline Newman stepped out of the car and opened the backseat door to retrieve her unusually light backpack. She took quick, long strides to her front door before unlocking it. Once inside, she tossed the pack onto a couch in the living room before heading to the kitchen, spying a note on the table:  Eva, I will be home late

Unearthed Secrets Eleanor Faucher laid on her bed staring up at the ceiling, her green eyes unfocused. I've graduated. But I don't feel any different she thought to herself. She had a few weeks before she'd have to register for college or get a job, mom's mandate. Or she could enlist in the army. She was more interested in joining the Air Force, if she had to be honest; a recruitment center wasn't too far away. It was early June in a smaller town not more than a few miles from a Florid