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>>>>
>>>> NOTA BENE: For those looking for info re. SexyFur, see here: >>> REPORTING ON A WIN-WIN RE. RECENT EVENTS <<<
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> NOTA MORE: If you're using FA's Classic UI screen, this page will look... funny. To remove the humour,
>>>> switch to the Modern UI (if you want). Thanx.
>>>>
>>> LATEST WORK POSTED:
Dec 16 /24: ●●● The Big Bird Santa Claus - Spoken Word
Aug 23 /24: ●●● The Weapon -- Spoken Word
Aug 23 /24: ●●● Mars Needs Reindeer!!! -- Spoken Word
Jun 21 /23: ●●● A LONG PRAYER FOR A FOUND KILLED RACCOON
Oct 1 /22: ●●● ON GRIEF FOR A KILLED FOX
Jun 14/22: ●●● WORDS OF SORROW ON SEEING A KILLED CROW
NEW >>> March 2022: Spoken Word Wolf and Bunny Sonnets -- Table of Contents
Dec 19/15: ●●● THE CRUSH -- A NOVEL
Dec 16/15: ●●● BACKSTAGE PASS -- Chap 13
Dec 16/14: ●●● BACKSTAGE PASS -- Chap 11 and 12
Nov 28/14: ●●● BACKSTAGE PASS -- Chap 9 and 10
Nov 21/14: ●●● BACKSTAGE PASS -- Chap 7 and 8
Nov 14/14: ●●● BACKSTAGE PASS -- Chap 5 and 6
Nov 8/14: ●●● BACKSTAGE PASS -- Chap 3 and 4
Oct 31/14: ●●● BACKSTAGE PASS -- Chap 1 and 2
●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●
●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●
●●●●
●●●● See also the companion account:
FA Writers Directory v1.0
Mega-thanx to
dragon-chan for the avatar. It’s me. :- )
__________________________________________________________________________
Have to think FA's better for artists than writers but it's still honkingly
important to be here. Pillar of the fur community, etc.
So: As of the start date (June 2011), I've got four years of fur stories behind
me, and more on the way. It's official: I'm a fur writer. Stop hiding the work
under a bushel, Mr. Brown.
Everyone can see your tail sticking out the bottom anyway. Oops. :- ) I gots
four points to make about what I wanna do here.
First and obvious: I'm here for feedback about the writing, either kudos or
critiques. Both valuable to me. A writer who's always loved and never hated
ain't a writer.
Second and critical: There's news and promotion. A writer has to blow
his/her own horn; no one else will. At least eight (or more?) novel-sized texts
will eventually make it into print and epub. Only one way to find out if they’re
worth anything. Bitchuva lotta work ahead of me.
Third and important: FA will be a place for other work, anthology fodder,
notes and essays on fur writing, etc. Let FA be an outlet for the non-commercial
stuff. A writer must feed the readers. We're in fur country, everyone's got sharp
fangs, very hungry, quick to pounce...
Nota Bene: From 2007 to 2013 the first outlet for my writing was SexyFur.
That name's a hot button, I know. Still, SexyFur art provoked a *helluva* lot of
fictional inspiration, nobody need doubt why, and grateful I surely iz that they
paid to post the stories.
Any comments/discussion re. SexyFur ought be in PM, not shout or comment.
Not askin', will be enforced. Loyalty to them totally aside, I dare not let work time
be gnawed up by a riot of FA's ubiquitous public bawww-and-snarl-fests. Good
question how much time I've got left anyway.
(A chilling Harlan Ellison essay backs up why I say this; love to upload it if
I can get permish. Ellison wrote about SF fandom, but his trenchant observations
nail fur fandom's tail too.)
Fourth and ultra-important: Over ten years ago I started writing with ambitions
to do up the Great Canadian SF Novel. Still have SF ambitions; 's what I grew up
reading. Perhaps it's not rare, but I look at furlit from a pure SF PoV, and a pro one.
In 2007 I tripped over furs (actually, Bernal's Champagne) and oooo and whoops,
what's all this lot? One helluva lot of fun, is what.
And there's room for a busload of SF. I'd like to see how far I can take it. This
could be a long ways indeed, and it shows in the work I've done to date.
Without even thinking about it I've gotten a fur 'Future History' started. I'm
calling it the Fur World project. It's getting elaborate. See Personal Quote/Official
Battle Cry.
And if I can ever figure out how to get some furs into orbit, *then* we'll be
talking SF. Look out, Niven, I'm gaining on you.
And I got sharp fangs. :- >
June 12/2011
___________________________________________________________________________
>>> FOLDER LINKS: (Not quite real folders, but Sphinx, FA's search
┃ engine, is able to simulate 'em. See here for
┃ details: On Doing Up Folders (Of A Kind) On FA.)
┣ ━ ━ >>> NOVELS/NOVELLAS
┃
┃ >>> SPECIAL NOTE: All stories are done in a
┣ ━ ━ >>> FUR WORLD STORIES high-def, high-readable font. Because of this,
┃ there are two copies of each story.
┃
┣ ━ ━ >>> SCIENCE FICTION The Enhanced text copy can only be read on
┃ CYAN screens. The Standard text copy can only
┃ be read on DARK screens. But they're all
┣ ━ ━ >>> FANTASY massively easier to read, which is the point.
┃
┃
┣ ━ ━ >>> MISCELLANEOUS
┃
┃
┕ ━ ━ >>> THE WOLF AND BUNNY SONNETS (Up to 40 so far; This link is to the table of contents)
___________________________________________________________________________
┃
┃
>>> NOVELS/NOVELLAS: Folder Link ┃ >>> FUR WORLD STORIES: Folder Link
┃
●●● THE CRUSH -- A NOVEL ┃ ●●● THE CRUSH -- A NOVEL
●●● BACKSTAGE PASS ┃ ●●● BACKSTAGE PASS
●●● ON ROUTE 69 - AN AUTOMOTIVE ROMANCE ┃ ●●● ON ROUTE 69 - AN AUTOMOTIVE ROMANCE
●●● DON`T GO NEAR THE SORCERESS - A NOVEL ┃ ●●● SHOWING OFF -- A NOVELLA
●●● SHOWING OFF -- A NOVELLA ┃ ●●● THE CUPID EFFECT -- A NOVEL
●●● THE CUPID EFFECT -- A NOVEL ┃ ●●● JUST DRIVE, SHE SAID -- A NOVEL
●●● ON COWORKERS -- A NOVELLA (Vore) ┃ ●●● WORLD PEACE NOW!!!
●●● JUST DRIVE, SHE SAID -- A NOVEL ┃ ●●● THE STARRY MESSENGER
●●● WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE ┃ ●●● MARS NEEDS REINDEER!!!
┃ ●●● REMOVING THE CAUSE
┃ ●●● THE PLANNING MEETING
┃ ●●● AH-WOOO!!!
>>> SF: Folder Link ┃ >>> FANTASY: Folder Link
┃
●●● THE WEAPON ┃ ●●● YOU`LL BELIEVE A REINDEER...
●●● ABDUCTION THEORY ┃ ●●● DON`T GO NEAR THE SORCERESS - A NOVEL
●●● BEST LAID PLANS... ┃ ●●● ON COWORKERS -- A NOVELLA (Vore)
●●● THE BUSINESS ┃ ●●● BYSTANDERS
●●● THE BIG BIRD SANTA CLAUS ┃ ●●● THE VALENTINES GIFT (Vore)
●●● WORLD PEACE NOW!!! ┃ ●●● BEEN READING A LITTLE TANITH LEE LATELY...
●●● BETTY HEAVY ┃ ●●● THE DRAGON`S DEAL
●●● THE STARRY MESSENGER ┃ ●●● THE WIT AND WISDOM OF CAPTAIN LIO
●●● MARS NEEDS REINDEER!!! ┃ ●●● JUST TROOPS - Military Aspects of Capt. Lio`s World
●●● AH-WOOO!!! ┃ ●●● WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE
>>> POETRY:
●●● THE WOLF AND BUNNY SONNETS (and spoken word)
●●● Words of Sorrow on Seeing A Dead Crow
●●● On Grief For A Killed Fox
>>> MISCELLANEOUS/NON-FICTION: Folder Link
●●● OH, NO REASON, NO REASON... (photo)
●●● REPORTING ON A WIN-WIN RE. RECENT EVENTS
●●● ON ENHANCED TEXT ON FA - A Short Typographic Manifesto
●●● CANADIAN WARPLANE HERITAGE MUSEUM LANCASTER
●●● COMMENTARY ON BETTY HEAVY
●●● COMMENTARY ON THE BIG BIRD SANTA CLAUS
●●● COMMENTARY ON THE DRAGON AND UNICORN STORIES
●●● COMMENTARY ON WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE
●●● COMMENTARY ON AH-WHOOO!!!
●●● PROPOSAL NOTE FORMAT
●●● PARA INDENT TRICK (NOV 27/11 JOURNAL)
●●● SEVEN DAYS OF CREATION (According To A Systems Programmer)
●●● JUST TROOPS - Military Aspects of Capt. Lio`s World
(●●● = Adult-rated ●●● = Mature-rated ●●● = General-rated)
*********************************************************************************************************************************************************************
>>>> NOTA BENE: For those looking for info re. SexyFur, see here: >>> REPORTING ON A WIN-WIN RE. RECENT EVENTS <<<
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> NOTA MORE: If you're using FA's Classic UI screen, this page will look... funny. To remove the humour,
>>>> switch to the Modern UI (if you want). Thanx.
>>>>
>>> LATEST WORK POSTED:
Dec 16 /24: ●●● The Big Bird Santa Claus - Spoken Word
Aug 23 /24: ●●● The Weapon -- Spoken Word
Aug 23 /24: ●●● Mars Needs Reindeer!!! -- Spoken Word
Jun 21 /23: ●●● A LONG PRAYER FOR A FOUND KILLED RACCOON
Oct 1 /22: ●●● ON GRIEF FOR A KILLED FOX
Jun 14/22: ●●● WORDS OF SORROW ON SEEING A KILLED CROW
NEW >>> March 2022: Spoken Word Wolf and Bunny Sonnets -- Table of Contents
Dec 19/15: ●●● THE CRUSH -- A NOVEL
Dec 16/15: ●●● BACKSTAGE PASS -- Chap 13
Dec 16/14: ●●● BACKSTAGE PASS -- Chap 11 and 12
Nov 28/14: ●●● BACKSTAGE PASS -- Chap 9 and 10
Nov 21/14: ●●● BACKSTAGE PASS -- Chap 7 and 8
Nov 14/14: ●●● BACKSTAGE PASS -- Chap 5 and 6
Nov 8/14: ●●● BACKSTAGE PASS -- Chap 3 and 4
Oct 31/14: ●●● BACKSTAGE PASS -- Chap 1 and 2
●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●
●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●
●●●●
●●●● See also the companion account:
FA Writers Directory v1.0 Mega-thanx to
dragon-chan for the avatar. It’s me. :- ) __________________________________________________________________________
Have to think FA's better for artists than writers but it's still honkingly
important to be here. Pillar of the fur community, etc.
So: As of the start date (June 2011), I've got four years of fur stories behind
me, and more on the way. It's official: I'm a fur writer. Stop hiding the work
under a bushel, Mr. Brown.
Everyone can see your tail sticking out the bottom anyway. Oops. :- ) I gots
four points to make about what I wanna do here.
First and obvious: I'm here for feedback about the writing, either kudos or
critiques. Both valuable to me. A writer who's always loved and never hated
ain't a writer.
Second and critical: There's news and promotion. A writer has to blow
his/her own horn; no one else will. At least eight (or more?) novel-sized texts
will eventually make it into print and epub. Only one way to find out if they’re
worth anything. Bitchuva lotta work ahead of me.
Third and important: FA will be a place for other work, anthology fodder,
notes and essays on fur writing, etc. Let FA be an outlet for the non-commercial
stuff. A writer must feed the readers. We're in fur country, everyone's got sharp
fangs, very hungry, quick to pounce...
Nota Bene: From 2007 to 2013 the first outlet for my writing was SexyFur.
That name's a hot button, I know. Still, SexyFur art provoked a *helluva* lot of
fictional inspiration, nobody need doubt why, and grateful I surely iz that they
paid to post the stories.
Any comments/discussion re. SexyFur ought be in PM, not shout or comment.
Not askin', will be enforced. Loyalty to them totally aside, I dare not let work time
be gnawed up by a riot of FA's ubiquitous public bawww-and-snarl-fests. Good
question how much time I've got left anyway.
(A chilling Harlan Ellison essay backs up why I say this; love to upload it if
I can get permish. Ellison wrote about SF fandom, but his trenchant observations
nail fur fandom's tail too.)
Fourth and ultra-important: Over ten years ago I started writing with ambitions
to do up the Great Canadian SF Novel. Still have SF ambitions; 's what I grew up
reading. Perhaps it's not rare, but I look at furlit from a pure SF PoV, and a pro one.
In 2007 I tripped over furs (actually, Bernal's Champagne) and oooo and whoops,
what's all this lot? One helluva lot of fun, is what.
And there's room for a busload of SF. I'd like to see how far I can take it. This
could be a long ways indeed, and it shows in the work I've done to date.
Without even thinking about it I've gotten a fur 'Future History' started. I'm
calling it the Fur World project. It's getting elaborate. See Personal Quote/Official
Battle Cry.
And if I can ever figure out how to get some furs into orbit, *then* we'll be
talking SF. Look out, Niven, I'm gaining on you.
And I got sharp fangs. :- >
June 12/2011
___________________________________________________________________________
>>> FOLDER LINKS: (Not quite real folders, but Sphinx, FA's search
┃ engine, is able to simulate 'em. See here for
┃ details: On Doing Up Folders (Of A Kind) On FA.)
┣ ━ ━ >>> NOVELS/NOVELLAS
┃
┃ >>> SPECIAL NOTE: All stories are done in a
┣ ━ ━ >>> FUR WORLD STORIES high-def, high-readable font. Because of this,
┃ there are two copies of each story.
┃
┣ ━ ━ >>> SCIENCE FICTION The Enhanced text copy can only be read on
┃ CYAN screens. The Standard text copy can only
┃ be read on DARK screens. But they're all
┣ ━ ━ >>> FANTASY massively easier to read, which is the point.
┃
┃
┣ ━ ━ >>> MISCELLANEOUS
┃
┃
┕ ━ ━ >>> THE WOLF AND BUNNY SONNETS (Up to 40 so far; This link is to the table of contents)
___________________________________________________________________________
┃
┃
>>> NOVELS/NOVELLAS: Folder Link ┃ >>> FUR WORLD STORIES: Folder Link
┃
●●● THE CRUSH -- A NOVEL ┃ ●●● THE CRUSH -- A NOVEL
●●● BACKSTAGE PASS ┃ ●●● BACKSTAGE PASS
●●● ON ROUTE 69 - AN AUTOMOTIVE ROMANCE ┃ ●●● ON ROUTE 69 - AN AUTOMOTIVE ROMANCE
●●● DON`T GO NEAR THE SORCERESS - A NOVEL ┃ ●●● SHOWING OFF -- A NOVELLA
●●● SHOWING OFF -- A NOVELLA ┃ ●●● THE CUPID EFFECT -- A NOVEL
●●● THE CUPID EFFECT -- A NOVEL ┃ ●●● JUST DRIVE, SHE SAID -- A NOVEL
●●● ON COWORKERS -- A NOVELLA (Vore) ┃ ●●● WORLD PEACE NOW!!!
●●● JUST DRIVE, SHE SAID -- A NOVEL ┃ ●●● THE STARRY MESSENGER
●●● WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE ┃ ●●● MARS NEEDS REINDEER!!!
┃ ●●● REMOVING THE CAUSE
┃ ●●● THE PLANNING MEETING
┃ ●●● AH-WOOO!!!
>>> SF: Folder Link ┃ >>> FANTASY: Folder Link
┃
●●● THE WEAPON ┃ ●●● YOU`LL BELIEVE A REINDEER...
●●● ABDUCTION THEORY ┃ ●●● DON`T GO NEAR THE SORCERESS - A NOVEL
●●● BEST LAID PLANS... ┃ ●●● ON COWORKERS -- A NOVELLA (Vore)
●●● THE BUSINESS ┃ ●●● BYSTANDERS
●●● THE BIG BIRD SANTA CLAUS ┃ ●●● THE VALENTINES GIFT (Vore)
●●● WORLD PEACE NOW!!! ┃ ●●● BEEN READING A LITTLE TANITH LEE LATELY...
●●● BETTY HEAVY ┃ ●●● THE DRAGON`S DEAL
●●● THE STARRY MESSENGER ┃ ●●● THE WIT AND WISDOM OF CAPTAIN LIO
●●● MARS NEEDS REINDEER!!! ┃ ●●● JUST TROOPS - Military Aspects of Capt. Lio`s World
●●● AH-WOOO!!! ┃ ●●● WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE
>>> POETRY:
●●● THE WOLF AND BUNNY SONNETS (and spoken word)
●●● Words of Sorrow on Seeing A Dead Crow
●●● On Grief For A Killed Fox
>>> MISCELLANEOUS/NON-FICTION: Folder Link
●●● OH, NO REASON, NO REASON... (photo)
●●● REPORTING ON A WIN-WIN RE. RECENT EVENTS
●●● ON ENHANCED TEXT ON FA - A Short Typographic Manifesto
●●● CANADIAN WARPLANE HERITAGE MUSEUM LANCASTER
●●● COMMENTARY ON BETTY HEAVY
●●● COMMENTARY ON THE BIG BIRD SANTA CLAUS
●●● COMMENTARY ON THE DRAGON AND UNICORN STORIES
●●● COMMENTARY ON WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE
●●● COMMENTARY ON AH-WHOOO!!!
●●● PROPOSAL NOTE FORMAT
●●● PARA INDENT TRICK (NOV 27/11 JOURNAL)
●●● SEVEN DAYS OF CREATION (According To A Systems Programmer)
●●● JUST TROOPS - Military Aspects of Capt. Lio`s World
(●●● = Adult-rated ●●● = Mature-rated ●●● = General-rated)
*********************************************************************************************************************************************************************
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Featured Journal
November, yecch. And obit.
5 years ago
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●●
●●
●● (Nota bene: Long time no jrnl stuff, but this one, copied over from the FAWD account,
●● be worthy.)
●●
●● (Also Nota: For the sake of humour and snickers, I've been fantasizing/bald-faced
●● pretending that I've a got a gorgeous/stacked/outrageously sexy blonde polar bear girl for
●● a girlfriend. Only speaks in <Growfs!>, but that's what Google Translate is for. Too much,
●● fun, a great character, and a wunnerful foil for furry laughs [and erotic ones], so dere. :- )
●● If curious, see the FAWD jrnls for more on her.)
●●
●●
●●
●●
●● Och aye, and here we are in grey, grey November, this harbinger, this
●● preview of the frozen season that's vectoring in. Not an improvement on
●● Oct. November promises snow, snow, snow, wunnerful fluffy snow, that's
●● gonna come gently down and murder us all.
●●
●● To quote Shania Twain, this don't impress me much. A la an old short
●● story by Jack London, your continued survival is directly contingent on your
●● ability to light a fire. Remind me to buy some more 'lil propane canisters
●● [for the torch]. Oh, and a bucket of lighters. To quote an old good cop
●● show, let's... be careful out there.
●●
●● And wazzat about obit? Some of the grey has gone away, such to
●● break my heart. Scamper, my 14-year-ish grey-furred 'n white-pawed
●● feline friend, has died. By all rights the water that come to me eye [Ave
●● Belafonte] shoulda shorted this keyboard to sparky slag. 'Cause a lot of
●● water. 'Cause Scamper was very, deeply loved. Do cats love us? Do they
●● just act like they do, purr purr?
●●
●● King-helluva moot question. From the way our hearts are cratered
●● when they die, not a question that matters. Now. Double-cratered as we
●● bury them. Lemme tell you all about it, Bunky.
●●
●● Well no; haven't got a spare keyboard. Cause of death: A type of
●● feline carcinoma, that starts in the jaw then grows to the point... to the
●● point...
●●
●● ...
●●
●● ...Where the cat can't eat or drink. Happened before to another cat,
●● euthanasia was mandated, couldn't do it here 'cause $$$. Triple-cratered.
●● What, God, the angels in Heaven needed a purr so they took a certain
●● pretty grey-furred feline? Most uncool. Go kick their ass 'n wings for me,
●● will you, God? Find their own cat. I needed mine.
●●
●● Needed, you say? 'Nother good question. Our lives are richer with 'em,
●● and their lives are here period, and it is love enough, on both sides, and
●● the same with all 'pets'. (Had a dog a few years back; 'zactly the same).
●● Do they look on us as their pets? <Purrr!!>. The deponent saith not. :- )
●●
●● Named Scamper, BTW, because that's what she did. A lot of. V.
●● bouncy cat, esp. so as kitten, sure couldn't call her Turtle. The house's
●● champion mouser too, always could tell the noises, then peeled a hapless
●● or dead Muridae off her fangs to toss outside, then petted her. Good cat.
●● <Purrr!>. And she was.
●●
●● Cratered to the fourth power. Come night, Scamper often insisted on
●● sneaking/snuggling under the blankets for some industrial-strength petting.
●● And <Purrr-ing!!>. I'll appropriately quote Steve Earle: I still remember that
●● rumbling sound.
●●
●● And now '...Leaving just a memory,' to quote Pink Floyd. Nothing left
●● of heart but craters, I think. Jeeze, God, whaddya trying to do here? Teach
●● some lessons, about life and death? Or lessons in choosing grave goods?
●● Yah, mysterious ways and all that yadda yadda, but howzabout just putting
●● some labels on, easier for us to get the message. I know, I know, that's a
●● non-starter, but put the idea on the committee agenda, plz?
●●
●● Grave goods for a much-loved cat? Well, a lotta tears for a start.
●● Tobacco, coffee; She knew the smell of both. Water, kibble, a spot of
●● cream--outrageous her taste for cream. A spot of litter gravel. A bit of
●● firewood; she always snuggled up [almost too close] to the stove. A snip of
●● grass; reminder of green summer. A snip of my hair and snip of fur from
●● my other cat, Camouflage. [Symbolically] You do not go into the dark
●● alone, Scamper.
●●
●● Last, a snip from a certain blanket. Wherever you go in the dark,
●● Scamper, [symbolically] you will be warm. Annnd it took about ten
●● minutes, at this point, before I could finish the burial. May have left my
●● heart in there too. <Purrr!!> Not much left of it by now anyway.
●●
●● And is there a FAWDish takeaway here? Yes, believe there is. We're all
●● [furry] writers in the room, folks, with great unstoppable powers over
●● words 'n time 'n space 'n the fate of the [fictional] Universe. So: *Use* that
●● power. Care for the ones that love you. Love the ones who care for you. To
●● the limits of your heart. And put alla this into words. And if the readers pick
●● up on it, and take it up, good. In fact, that's the point. You're getting it,
●● you're getting it, God murmurs.
●●
●● Yeah well f**k, allow me some rage re. Your methods. Since a pretty
●● cat is dead, who never deserved such suffering, and I've got a heart to
●● spackle back together. Reaf spiffy, God, and... <Growf!>
●●
●● Oh. It's the cute fantasy polar bear girlfriend again. And as awesome
●● sexy as she is, I detect some mysterious ways afoot here too. Has to be:
●● She's making a hot black G-string look like funeral/mourning wear. Plus the
●● black choker on her neck. As usual, I think she's been reading what I've
●● been typing.
●●
●● <Growf!> Trans (Softly): I'm so sorry. Saw her with you, and no,
●● they're not sentient like us, but maybe sentient enough for love? What was
●● our first clue? Oh, and if anybody comes at you with that 'Circle of Life'
●● crap, send them to me and I'll eat them for you. She was a predator, I'm a
●● predator, you're a predator, and all predators--and all prey--know how
●● much Disney bullshit that metaphor is. There is only Life. There is only
●● Death. And the bright, bright line that divides them. There are fools who
●● think they will never cross that line. Or more foolish, that that line can
●● somehow be transcended. There is nothing more to say, or any more
●● meaning to it than that. In pain and suffering--no other way--now Scamper
●● has crossed that bright line, and... um... okay, now he's crying all over my
●● boobs, sure didn't see dat coming. 'S all right lover; they're waterproof. :- )
●●
●● . . .
●●
●● Well how about that? As they say, out of the mouths of [sexy stacked
●● polar bear] babes. Wait, nobody ever says that. Muzzles too, not mouth.
●● Always date the smart ones, gentlemen, always date the smart ones. And
●● ignore the fang count. :- )
●●
●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●
●●
●●
●● (Nota bene: Long time no jrnl stuff, but this one, copied over from the FAWD account,
●● be worthy.)
●●
●● (Also Nota: For the sake of humour and snickers, I've been fantasizing/bald-faced
●● pretending that I've a got a gorgeous/stacked/outrageously sexy blonde polar bear girl for
●● a girlfriend. Only speaks in <Growfs!>, but that's what Google Translate is for. Too much,
●● fun, a great character, and a wunnerful foil for furry laughs [and erotic ones], so dere. :- )
●● If curious, see the FAWD jrnls for more on her.)
●●
●●
●●
●●
●● Och aye, and here we are in grey, grey November, this harbinger, this
●● preview of the frozen season that's vectoring in. Not an improvement on
●● Oct. November promises snow, snow, snow, wunnerful fluffy snow, that's
●● gonna come gently down and murder us all.
●●
●● To quote Shania Twain, this don't impress me much. A la an old short
●● story by Jack London, your continued survival is directly contingent on your
●● ability to light a fire. Remind me to buy some more 'lil propane canisters
●● [for the torch]. Oh, and a bucket of lighters. To quote an old good cop
●● show, let's... be careful out there.
●●
●● And wazzat about obit? Some of the grey has gone away, such to
●● break my heart. Scamper, my 14-year-ish grey-furred 'n white-pawed
●● feline friend, has died. By all rights the water that come to me eye [Ave
●● Belafonte] shoulda shorted this keyboard to sparky slag. 'Cause a lot of
●● water. 'Cause Scamper was very, deeply loved. Do cats love us? Do they
●● just act like they do, purr purr?
●●
●● King-helluva moot question. From the way our hearts are cratered
●● when they die, not a question that matters. Now. Double-cratered as we
●● bury them. Lemme tell you all about it, Bunky.
●●
●● Well no; haven't got a spare keyboard. Cause of death: A type of
●● feline carcinoma, that starts in the jaw then grows to the point... to the
●● point...
●●
●● ...
●●
●● ...Where the cat can't eat or drink. Happened before to another cat,
●● euthanasia was mandated, couldn't do it here 'cause $$$. Triple-cratered.
●● What, God, the angels in Heaven needed a purr so they took a certain
●● pretty grey-furred feline? Most uncool. Go kick their ass 'n wings for me,
●● will you, God? Find their own cat. I needed mine.
●●
●● Needed, you say? 'Nother good question. Our lives are richer with 'em,
●● and their lives are here period, and it is love enough, on both sides, and
●● the same with all 'pets'. (Had a dog a few years back; 'zactly the same).
●● Do they look on us as their pets? <Purrr!!>. The deponent saith not. :- )
●●
●● Named Scamper, BTW, because that's what she did. A lot of. V.
●● bouncy cat, esp. so as kitten, sure couldn't call her Turtle. The house's
●● champion mouser too, always could tell the noises, then peeled a hapless
●● or dead Muridae off her fangs to toss outside, then petted her. Good cat.
●● <Purrr!>. And she was.
●●
●● Cratered to the fourth power. Come night, Scamper often insisted on
●● sneaking/snuggling under the blankets for some industrial-strength petting.
●● And <Purrr-ing!!>. I'll appropriately quote Steve Earle: I still remember that
●● rumbling sound.
●●
●● And now '...Leaving just a memory,' to quote Pink Floyd. Nothing left
●● of heart but craters, I think. Jeeze, God, whaddya trying to do here? Teach
●● some lessons, about life and death? Or lessons in choosing grave goods?
●● Yah, mysterious ways and all that yadda yadda, but howzabout just putting
●● some labels on, easier for us to get the message. I know, I know, that's a
●● non-starter, but put the idea on the committee agenda, plz?
●●
●● Grave goods for a much-loved cat? Well, a lotta tears for a start.
●● Tobacco, coffee; She knew the smell of both. Water, kibble, a spot of
●● cream--outrageous her taste for cream. A spot of litter gravel. A bit of
●● firewood; she always snuggled up [almost too close] to the stove. A snip of
●● grass; reminder of green summer. A snip of my hair and snip of fur from
●● my other cat, Camouflage. [Symbolically] You do not go into the dark
●● alone, Scamper.
●●
●● Last, a snip from a certain blanket. Wherever you go in the dark,
●● Scamper, [symbolically] you will be warm. Annnd it took about ten
●● minutes, at this point, before I could finish the burial. May have left my
●● heart in there too. <Purrr!!> Not much left of it by now anyway.
●●
●● And is there a FAWDish takeaway here? Yes, believe there is. We're all
●● [furry] writers in the room, folks, with great unstoppable powers over
●● words 'n time 'n space 'n the fate of the [fictional] Universe. So: *Use* that
●● power. Care for the ones that love you. Love the ones who care for you. To
●● the limits of your heart. And put alla this into words. And if the readers pick
●● up on it, and take it up, good. In fact, that's the point. You're getting it,
●● you're getting it, God murmurs.
●●
●● Yeah well f**k, allow me some rage re. Your methods. Since a pretty
●● cat is dead, who never deserved such suffering, and I've got a heart to
●● spackle back together. Reaf spiffy, God, and... <Growf!>
●●
●● Oh. It's the cute fantasy polar bear girlfriend again. And as awesome
●● sexy as she is, I detect some mysterious ways afoot here too. Has to be:
●● She's making a hot black G-string look like funeral/mourning wear. Plus the
●● black choker on her neck. As usual, I think she's been reading what I've
●● been typing.
●●
●● <Growf!> Trans (Softly): I'm so sorry. Saw her with you, and no,
●● they're not sentient like us, but maybe sentient enough for love? What was
●● our first clue? Oh, and if anybody comes at you with that 'Circle of Life'
●● crap, send them to me and I'll eat them for you. She was a predator, I'm a
●● predator, you're a predator, and all predators--and all prey--know how
●● much Disney bullshit that metaphor is. There is only Life. There is only
●● Death. And the bright, bright line that divides them. There are fools who
●● think they will never cross that line. Or more foolish, that that line can
●● somehow be transcended. There is nothing more to say, or any more
●● meaning to it than that. In pain and suffering--no other way--now Scamper
●● has crossed that bright line, and... um... okay, now he's crying all over my
●● boobs, sure didn't see dat coming. 'S all right lover; they're waterproof. :- )
●●
●● . . .
●●
●● Well how about that? As they say, out of the mouths of [sexy stacked
●● polar bear] babes. Wait, nobody ever says that. Muzzles too, not mouth.
●● Always date the smart ones, gentlemen, always date the smart ones. And
●● ignore the fang count. :- )
●●
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