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“Go on, freak, eat
it.” Pinched between Libby’s fingers and held aloft by its tale,
the white furred doe mouse’s black eyes were wide with fear as the
late teens black furred wolf shook her catch teasingly in the face of
a scarlet furred fox of similar age, swinging the rodent back and
forth by the tail as it made pitiful plaintive cries. “Foxes are
supposed to eat mice. You’re a fox, aren’t you?�

“Are you trying to seduce me, Mrs.
Robin?” Josef asked rhetorically, the words coming as sultry as
desired thanks to the expensive Squeaker collar she had bought him
with her husband’s wealth. Producing tones and inflections
flawlessly, it was a much better model than he had wore when first
approaching her door selling insurance.
Standing atop aqua green colored bed
covers, the gray furred mouse just reaching the cusp of adulthood
gazed upon the tawny tan body of the mountain lion, the ris

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“Memo from Frank Richfield to Ryan
Samsin ,” announced the food item posing as an intern on Denise’s
desk while her fingers ticked away on the typewriter. The ashen gray
fox’s manicured claws, sharp enough to slice the skin off a live
rabbit, ticked precisely upon the metal keys. “Subject:
cancellation of team-building exercise for the twenty-fourth—”
“Oh, thank Giver,” Denise
breathed a loud

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It began with music, a perky rhythmic
jingle you could dance to, the pitch so high a listener might wonder
if it were all being played on a xylophone. Like the song of birds
outside a prison, the music pierced the silent darkness immersing
Tuck, the mouse’s round ears rolling instinctively towards the
sound through the wall of the metal dome covering him.
A shiver ran through his body, covered
only in the natural c

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“You can go on your lunch break when
you finish my schedule, but not a minute before,” said Director
John Swift chidingly to his natural predator and secretary. Though
the meaning was clear, the tone of the words would be utterly lost on
the orange-red furred vixen behind the one-way glass of his office
that was as lavishly decorated and posh as it was small, the most
elegant hole in the wall a rodent could