Keir groans, collecting him in his arms to brace him for his answer. Fen is surprised not to feel the warmth he expected and quickly…

“Who is that?” Giff asks, nudging Fen with his left elbow and Nort with his right. “Don’t look, dumbass. Chill,” he hisses across the table…

Keir flinches as a locker around the corner from his slams shut, and a voice shouts, “Fuck off!” He noiselessly pulls his work shirt out…

Two large green eyes open from the shadowy side of the concrete planter outside of the corner shop on Baines St, in Melitown, and meet…

“No, no, no, no, no,” the black cat hears the girl on the ground beneath his branch mutter. She pulls her knees to her chest…

The stately black cat sits in the shadows across from the Spin Cycle Laundromat and Bike Repair shop, waiting. On schedule, his target exits the…