After opening my eyes, I found myself in that sinking trap of an armchair, but the rest of the room was gone, replaced by darkness. A waist-high console radio sat on the pitch-black floor in front of ...

A Cartoon-Style LitRPG serial

I woke up the next morning to bright sunlight shining straight in my eyes. With a full stomach before bed and no nightmares to chase me, I had slept in much too late. Inky was snoring softly somewhere...

I was croaking more than singing by the time I reached the studio lot, stumbling forward on two exhausted feet. Every time the song ended, the piano would nudge me, and we’d start our duet all over ag...

“Madam, Ma’am, I don’t know the first thing about catching pianos! And it goes without saying that I don’t know the second and third, neither!” “Nonsense,” Madam Bovary replied, her hand slipping off ...

Eura Abrams writes The Last Rae of Hope, Sally Salamander. Wandering through worlds

Mr. Narrator didn’t offer any more information about this self-imposed shut-in status, and further inquiries about it were carefully deflected toward other matters, such as the importance of seizing t...

The walking and talking Shirley and I did during our stroll home wasn’t anything too noteworthy. However, I did learn that Ralph the Rat spent so many days picking through ‘The Scrapyard’ that he was ...

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The dog from my earlier visit was on desk duty at the School of Hard Knocks that evening. He stiffened at my approach, bracing for any possible reproach. Mr. Narrator was nice enough to chuckle at th...

The inky little critter was smart enough to stay hidden as a speckle on my tail through the rest of the gig. After a few minutes, I didn’t really notice its presence on my skin, though if I leaned in,...

Sleep came quickly despite the night’s friction. Being at the far end of the dorm meant I had a lovely wall to stare at, and as far as I could tell, it didn’t hold no grudges like the other dorm girls...

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══════ ✦ ✦ ✦ ══════ ATTENTION, RADIO AUDIENCES EVERYWHERE! ══════ ✦ ✦ ✦ ══════ Presenting, for your listening pleasure, Chapter One of Animated Ambitions, starring Sally Salamander—performed as (...

The usher did his job quickly, leading me to the theatre entrance and holding the door as I made my exit. No sooner had my tail crossed the threshold than the door slammed shut with a boom. Guess that...

The Penny Reel wasn’t much to look at from the outside, at least during the middle of the day. Its box office lights were off, making the plain brick front all the more mundane. The glass booth out fr...

“With all of Sally’s good humor gone, she waited right in the middle of the empty factory floor for her potential aptitude results, her right heel tapping to keep time with her increasing impatience!”...

[Recommended Music for last half of this Chapter: Raymond Scott (1937), Powerhouse | Link set to B Section for Assembly Line Riff, but the whole thing's swell]: https://youtu.be/6ft60BtJ5sY?t=74 (....

By the time I made it back to the job board, it wasn't just a board anymore; it was an out-and-out brawl. A whole mob of toons had beaten me there, elbowing and hollering at one another. Birds squawke...

Somewhere past the darkness, I heard a trumpet take up a note. A second one joined, then a trombone slid in between them, slower but even more confident about its rhythm. A few saxophones got in the g...

Brrrrrnng! An alarm clock from somewhere rang so hard it threw itself off a shelf with a crash. “Whuh? What’s—aaaah!” I cried, tumbling out of bed along with my blanket. The whole room was shaking und...

I woke up all alone, for once. No Chester on his designated half of the mattress, no Olethros pretending I was the one initiating sleep-centric cuddles. My fake alarm clock, fuzzy at first, eventually...

Doodled by a dame and passed over by the patriarchy, Sally Salamander was never meant to take center stage. Her charismatic creator—an uncredited cell-washer with ambitions no studio man would ever ap...

General Ragnerus was sitting in the center of the magic circle when I arrived. He wasn’t contained by it, yet he filled the space in a way that made it feel as if he was restraining himself. There was...

Delta XII was a small, circular room covered in glowing red runes. Its center display formed a magic circle about six feet in diameter. “Set him in the center,” Galenus instructed. He appeared rather ...

General Ragnerus was faster than the simulations. Galenus's version had been structurally and motivationally accurate. Still, the real deal was in full animus overload and had just blasted out of a se...

What constituted ‘the active party’ was subject to the opinion of the person you asked. Bringing Tetora with us to Turri was a given, since he was one of the original members and the loudest. He was a...

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It took Aurum a bit of time to come around to the prospect of playing along with the portals. He wasn’t exactly used to their dark, vine-laced maws swallowing us, let alone finding himself suddenly ru...