Of Cats and Miceby Scratch T. L. ‘I never should have listened to my mother,’ Julie thought to herself. It was one year to the date of her honeymoon, and she at that moment sitting before an ornate gilded mirror in one of her dressing rooms, carefully cleaning blood from her claws and fur in the mirror, licking the dried, flaky material into her mouth and purring as her saliva rehydrated it, creating bursts of coppery sweetness. As she brought her pink fur back to a delicate sheen

Rodent and the Magic Pipe
by Scratch T.L.
Every night, just as the sun had set and the blue sky closed its purple wings and fell away into darkness, a small rat would make his way over winding crevices and hollows in the face of the craggy mountainside to watch the spectacle of a dragon's evening smoke.
As bright swirls of purple, pink and sizzling red vapors plumed and wisped into the night sky, a sense of peace would overwhelmed the rodent, who's name it turned out was in fact Rodent -- at l