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Of a Feather, Pg 81

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Might've wanted to think that through a little longer, there, Kain...

Another Short Story

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Here's one:      That's running a bit late, but, well, better late than never, as the kids like to say.      It's the Spring Equinox 2025 issue of Journ-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature , y'see, even though the larger world around us, observing that I'm posting this on the Wednesday after Memorial Day, might be inclined to believe that we've entered the unofficial beginning of Summer.      Still, I've got a story called "Cleanse" in the aforementioned issue, the third of the stories I've had published in Journ-E about the talking cats, dogs, and birds living in the magical Realm of Marigold. I'll add here my standard proviso when discussing these Marigold stories: any resemblance between the characters and settings here and the characters and settings of the cartoon series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is entirely purposeful.      The first of the stories, in cas...

Of a Feather, Pg 80

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Coil's done this combining thing a couple times before, usually with Mrs. Teasdale, now that I look back at it: check this page and the following from our 28th storyline, " This Mortal Coil ," for instance.

Of a Feather, Pg 79

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Using anti-aircraft weaponry seems extreme. I mean, yes, Kain's a bird, but still...

Terebinth, Page 1,831: The Ballad of Shurra & Blatt

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The Terebinth Story Archive      Run, Trudy. Run!

Of a Feather, Pg 78

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      When I first started this story last year, each page was just over 500 words long. These last couple weeks, though, they've been inching up toward 700 words each. Definitely a novel we've got going here...

Of a Feather, Pg 77

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The Daily Grind Table of Contents      Our little Kain is growing up...