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Two beasts collide in a coil of fur, claws, and teeth. Buffeting each other in a ferocious dance. The coffee-coloured female clamping her pearly fangs around the neck of her stormy-furred foe, paws squeezing around his underbelly, loosening just before his wheezing crescendos into permanent damage. She can’t kill him, he is her brother after all, but the patrons came for a show. Who is she to deny them. Their master’s livelihood, and therefore theirs, depends upon it. There is not a chance in the realm she is going to let herself or Ash...
Submitted to Contest #290
They whisper of a place beyond the peaks, where affection is not followed by a public lashing. Where devotion is not a weakness. Where falling in love is a blissful and coveted phenomena.Here, it is a crime against the State. I have longed to flee to this alleged land with Gabe. Pleaded until my throat rasped and my tears depleted as he dressed himself in the garb that serves our keepers. He would rather live entrapped in fear than risk the journey. Says if we remain in a place where we know the rules, we will survive. I’d sooner impale myse...
Submitted to Contest #289
Her eyes bore into me; beady as a raven’s and black as space itself. The thin arctic-blue rings surrounding her uncommonly large pupils glisten like the sun bouncing off the surface of a glacial river. Mesmerizing. I have never met anyone with full-spectrum vision before. Only heard the tales my father would spin me to sleep with. He called them Wavers, and I thought them a myth. I fancy asking her if she can see the remodelling of the oblique fracture on my left ulna, but that would be entirely unprofessional and no doubt a ubiquitous quest...
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