Survival of the Species:


The Skeeters


Story by KavenBach 2008



Marcie held out her hand behind her, gesturing at the others to stop. Obediently --- and fearfully --- Millie and Anita stopped moving, and maybe even stopped breathing, as they responded to her silent warning. They crouched in the brush behind her, waiting for her to tell them what to do... either to turn tail and run for their lives, or to silently move onward toward the hoped-for salvation.

Salvation was a long

Survival
of the Species
Part
Five:
Preparing
for Carnage
Story
(C) KavenBach 2008
"How
are the preparations coming along?"
Michelle
looked over as Kayla stepped up beside her. The clan leader's long
brown hair shook in the breeze as she looked over the wall and across
the river at the work being done there.
"Slowly,"
Michelle replied, shaking her head, her jaw-length red hair shaking
also. "To make the pits be worth
anything,
they have to be deep enough and large en

Survival of the Species


Part Ten: Hunt of the Homers


Story by KavenBach 2009



Allie was excited.

She was grateful, too. So grateful. Grateful to her new clan... to these people that had, so far, put her old clan of the Home to shame.

As she worked alongside her friends, clearing branches from trees and hauling the logs onto the cart they'd been assigned, she could only reflect on her situation. She could only be amazed at how thoroughly things had turned around for her and

Survival of the Species


Part Eleven: Fucking the Food, Fearing the Freedom


Story by KavenBach 2009



“Okay, boy, okay,” Anne chided as Runt nudged her with his snout. She patted the top of his nose in a placating manner. “We're going, we're going. Be patient. You'll have a meal soon, so you be good.”

Runt gurgled impatiently but straightened up and looked around vaguely. He wasn't really all that hungry... but he was a little irritated, and he did fee

Survival of the Species


Part 12: The Fear Factor


Story By KavenBach June 2009



It was exciting, but it was terrifying.

Lucy was used to scary things. She was used to being as excited as she was scared, as she fought big creatures that wanted nothing other than to eat her alive. She had learned young, or so she suspected, that the best response to her fear, rather than to panic, was to confront it head-on. It had served her, and other girls, well, and she had saved herself and

Survival of the Species


Part 13: The Risks of Travel


Story by KavenBach 2009



“Are you sure you want to do this?” Kayla gripped Anne's hand and shook it in farewell, but she still didn't like what her friend --- and clan leader, instead of her --- was about to do.

“Yes,” Anne said, nodding, smiling reassuringly. It didn't really reassure the brunette, but Anne didn't particularly mind. The clan would be fine while she was gone, and would be fine even i

Survival of the Species

Part Five:


Preparing for Carnage


Story (C) KavenBach 2008




"How are the preparations coming along?"

Michelle looked over as Kayla stepped up beside her. The clan leader's long brown hair shook in the breeze as she looked over the wall and across the river at the work being done there.

"Slowly," Michelle replied, shaking her head, her jaw-length red hair shaking also. "To make the pits be worth anything, they have to be de

Survival of the Species
Part Six:
Delicious Defiance
Story (C) KavenBach 2008
        
This isn't going fast enough...
        
Anne looked over at Kayla as their leader stopped and stood, her hands on her hips, watching the scene before her. She was near the top of the hill, close to the front of the ancient brick farmhouse, looking down at the progress of the gate's reconstruction. Or rather, the lack thereof.
&nbs

Survival of the Species

Part 7:



Controlled Carnage



Story by KavenBach 2008





Something about him just... isn't quite right.

Kurt tried to tell himself he wasn't just being jealous. He tried to convince himself that it wasn't just that he felt threatened in his manhood. He tried to imagine that everyone, women as well as men, felt a little like he did.

But no matter the reason... he just didn't quite like Tommy.

Tommy seemed harmless enough, though... but somethi

Survival of the Species


Part Eight: Monsters and Mercies


Story by KavenBach 2008



“How is he doing?”

Anne turned her head around to look at Kayla as the chief approached. She hadn't felt her nearing, but that was mainly because she was trying to keep herself out of everyone else's mind, or at least, to do it only when she wanted to... to exert some control over it. She reached out now, cautiously, and saw that Kayla was wondering if she was looking, indee

Survival of the Species


Part Nine: New Friends, New Finds


Story by KavenBach 2008




“So how is she doing?”

Anne looked up at Michelle and smiled. The woman Michelle was referring to, lying on her back in the furs of the Healing Hut, also smiled.

“She's all right. Mostly just sore.” Anne looked down at the girl. “Right, Rhonda?”

The woman nodded, if a little stiffly. She shifted a little, as though trying to get comfortable. It was