A
Little Breaking & Entering
“Alright…
just a little twist here, a tap there and… Got it! We’re in!”
Alex
barely even nodded in reply to his owner, keeping an eye on the
street outside the rather lavish home that he and Tashul were
breaking into. He had known his owner had som sort of big heist in
mind for a while, though he hadn’t been given much of a warning
when today had started. He hadn’t even had time to grab a bite to
eat before heading out, practically jumping into hi

Admitting
to our shortcomings, our mistakes, and our… well, stupidity is one
of the key things that set us apart from simple animals. We learn
from what we’ve done or, at the very least, don’t DRASTICALLY
injure ourselves in the process. Thankfully, I’m usually a part of
the former rather than the latter. I don’t like being in pain, so I
tend to avoid situations that would cause it. Then again, there are
things that can cause different kinds of pain: mental, emotional,
etc. The one I�

The
day that she died was the day I began to live.
We
had met in our youth, just two students in high school trying to
figure out what we wanted to do with our lives while still very much
naïve about how the world really works. To be perfectly honest, I
had already pretty much planned out what I wanted to do: melt into
the shadows and stay there, away from the society that labeled me a
‘freak’ or an ‘abomination’. I didn’t ask to be so tall, to
have my mouth be so wide and built almo

“… your reigning champion, the
man who strikes as fast as a viper, the terror of the Arena:
GAAAAAARETH MAAATEAUUU!”
“Now there’s a man who looks
like he could be taken down a few pegs,” Taliel mused, peering
through the gate at the man in question. Gareth was definitely
playing the part of the egotistical Arena Champion quite well:
dressed in his signature black leather armor, fist raised high in the
air and cape billowing behind him, the human was practically
strutting about the ar

Confession
and an Offer
There’s
a few seconds of darkness as the video begins, some shuffling sounds
pouring from the speakers as someone fiddles with the camera. After a
few moments, a female voice is heard and she doesn’t sound all that
happy.
“Oh,
why isn’t it working? All I see is black!”
Another
sound is heard amongst everything else, a much muffled voice
answering the first. To be perfectly honest, it’s impossible to
tell what was said.
“Hm?
Check the… Oh!”
The
darkn

Relaxing
at Work
“I
swear that guy’s not happy unless he’s complaining. I mean,
seriously, I tell him not to do something because it’ll be too
strenuous for him and, what does he do? He goes and does it anyway,
just so he can bitch about having to do it because ‘no one else
will’!”
“Uh-huh…”
I mumble, pulling another box down out of the cooler’s bin and
popping it open to get at the packages of steak inside. Tom and I
both work in the meat cooler at our store, keeping bus