He opened his eyes and there, white-smiled and wide-eyed in the midnight gloom, was the creature. It hung back against the wall: long arms, long body, round head. Hairy, but…
‘It’s just a pigeon,’ said the girl. ‘Let it die.’ The boy lifted it with gentle hands. It was too weak to struggle. He could feel its heartbeat against his…
The couple spotted the monstrously fluffy cat striding purposefully toward them across the moonlit street. The first tapped his partner. ‘Cat!’ ‘Yes, I see it.’ He sighed dramatically, but couldn’t…
She stilled, eyes locked with a sloth-like creature with mossy fur, claws like twisted roots, and a mushroom shell. It dangled from the tree, blinking first one bright green eye,…
Curled on her side in the window-seat, she gazed out at the open moors. Tears made gentle tracks down her cheeks. Outside, the clouds gathered, dark with empathy, heavy with…
His feet were sore and blistered in his shredded shoes. His shirt was bramble-torn and leaf-stained, his trousers dirty and frayed. The river was a mirage-like solace, too good to…
There is a woman drifting in the deep. Her eyes are closed, her limbs loose and floating. Fish dart in and out of her hair. Many-armed things probe her face…
‘I don’t know if I can do it.’ The ground fell away mere inches from his feet, a chasm of rock walls and thorny brambles. ‘You can!’ she called from…
He found it on a country lane. A beast of curling black fur and heavy paws. Its red eyes lit up its face in the dark; long muzzle, long tongue,…
I’m raising a draxel from ClockworkCaracal — a completely unique little pixel-dragon which at each stage of its life will be given new art. It’s currently just a little egg…