Freshly promoted to second in command of his pack and burdened with new responsibilities in taking care of his depopulating pack, the only joy that remains in Tin's life is updating the blog he keeps on the sorry state of getting around in his neck of the woods. Given an urgent task by his ailing Alpha that thrusts him out of his comfort zone, can he juggle his new mission, new city, and new friends? Prompt #36…
Titus Walker has always felt that he didn't fit in. There always seemed to be an invisible gulf between him and his peers. In his final year, he just wants to fly under the radar, graduate and get the hell out of his private, all-boys high school. The quiet equilibrium of his life is shattered when he is forced to sit next to golden boy Fraser Sinclair, although he initially does not expect much to come of the arrangement. A few sidelong glances, at most. Not even in his wildest dreams could he foresee that this would lead to a wild goose chase for the one-and-only Steely Dan jukebox musical in the world, long rides on public transport, and being shadowed by a mysterious white Volkswagen Golf.Started 02/8/20.…
When a young woman goes missing without a trace, the police write it off as another missing persons case. But her mother is not convinced... After the fallout from a corruption scandal forces the disbanding of her old unit, Elise Wu is transferred across the country to Corviston. She is paired with the grumpy, withdrawn Simon Brown, who she had worked with previously. Simon quickly becomes convinced that the mother is right in her instinct. A trail of clues leads to an unlikely path...…
Brendan Quan is trying to put his past behind him where it belongs, working part-time at a bookstore while interning at an urban planning thinktank, the Corviston Intelligent Neighbourhood Co-operative (CINCO). When Adrian Chang bursts unexpectedly into his life in a chance encounter, he finds himself smitten. But this new presence in his life brings new allegiances and challenges, and the past once again threatens to consume his life...…
Living in a world filled with wannabe tinpot dictators (aka Alphas), pack members who disagree with his every move, and dispossessed rogues, Alpha Jim of the Shadow Bluff Pack has given up on the idealism of his youth. The world he inhabits has inured him to dealing with the impasse of pack politics with practiced indifference. But then, as the world around him is destabilised by a series of seemingly unrelated and increasingly serious events, he becomes aware, slowly but surely, that something malevolent is afoot, and that he must shake off this impassiveness to preserve his and his compatriots' way of life. Cover by @ophidiae…
One shots and contest entries.…
Set in 1970s-era Melbourne, Australia, this story comes from a period when the first modern trams/streetcars were being introduced in Melbourne.…
He had wished he could just grab their joy and cram it into his heart- but he knew, deep inside, and with bitter disappointment and anger, that it was not possible. It was not possible. It was not possible...…