...light, a slavering felhound appeared and charged without hesitation. His fanged antennae glowed brightly with stolen magic as it tore through the priest’s hastily erected shield. Leaping up, it pushed the priest to the ground, foreclaws resting on the weakened undead’s chest.     Rictus’ eyes glowed a deep amber as he let shadow magic take hold of his senses. “Ahh, I see it now,” he said. “It all ...

Another Crazy Cat Story

... in 1971, but now extant only on The Best of Bill Cosby: the Millennium Collection. 2 This is the feline equivalent of moving your lips while reading. I'm just happy she telegraphed her intentions so that I could act before she did. 3 We keep our cats' foreclaws clipped to reasonably nonlethal dullness, but their rear claws—behind which I could expect Yuki to put her full weight—stay sharp.

Old Short Story

... the twenty secret symbols of the alphabet of Mu, the sacred alpha of lost Atlantis. Suddenly, unexpectedly, he caught her. Their bodies pressed together, metallic scales against metallic scales, his foreclaws holding her still, their wings flapping in unison, to keep their combined weight aloft. Pleasure blotted out his thoughts, spread through his nerves, tingled in his skin, inflamed his ...

Good Day - Part One

..., and steps forward to the fence to peer over at the bundle as far as her already swollen belly will allow. Naomith, now free of Corana's restricting hold, has lunged on the dead wherry, sinking foreclaws into it's flesh and gnawing inexpertly at it's neck for a rush of blood and gore. Or maybe she's just drawing it out intentionally to make Zhoreth jealous? "He's precious!" Corana cries, ...

Dealing with the Devil- Anachronism, Mariska, Contracts

... life, but I am only able to give when it is accepted." Mariska's quiet a moment. Thoughtful. "What of your 'Path'?" she asks, shifting the ball from one hand to the other, extending foreclaws as she does so. The hologram moves on the ball to remain oriented in the right direction. "The Clockwork Path is the collective of individuals who work closely with me. They have accepted the gift fully. ...