Fiction

It is sunny outside. I feel the heat, I see the other birds chirping from their perch on a branch. I want to fly, the wind ruffling my feathers, two hundred feet above the ground.

Moonlight herd: 

Matriarch (Leaders of the herd, and migration guide): Tansy- Rare female albino, with rare blue eyes, named for her love in the herb tansy 

Chapter 1: 

“Howl! Howl! Howl!” A green dog yowled. She was stalking her victim, a young man who was dying. She saw the spirit rise from his body as he passed away. 

“Hello?” He called. “Is anyone there?” 

Framed by Fate 

Allegiances: 

Moon group: 

Alpha: Crater (A gray fox with brown eyes, M) 

LEADER: CEDARSTAR-very dark gray tom with a white belly  

DEPUTY: STONETOOTH-gray tabby tom with long teeth  

The heavyweight champion of the world enters the ring.

“Boy, he looks solid, doesn’t he, Jim?”

“Sure does. Confident, like.”

Sunfawn’s Hope 

  by Sunfawn

My thumb slammed in the door, rapidly turning purple. At first I didn’t even realize, I had become that numb to reality, similar to how my thumb was about to be. My neighbor, Mr. Smithers, waved at me from across the way.

The icy Penobscot wind cut through me like a blade as I stared at the crow, now just a crumpled shadow in the snow. My dad’s shot had silenced its call, and it lay there, broken and defeated, a symbol of my own helplessness.

Brazil, the year forgotten. The sun is rising. 

The ocean longs for her beloved moon but she has already gone down. The sun has taken her place and the water finds no comfort in him.

He grabs my hand like he did last week—it might even be at the same time if I remembered— and pulls me across the hallway stained with the cafeteria's red sauce that students have been spilling for ages, and into what he calls "our place