The sign on the shop read:
‘Mystical Madame Mandy: Psychic Readings by Appointment’. A large neon eye was glowing above with huge wooden hands shimmying to and fro alongside.
Amber - ace meerkat reporter - snapped a photo of the storefront in a little strip mall in the north side of town. She had just photographed an elderly mink walking out of the subject’s shop. Amber vaguely recognized her as an heir to a steel works fortune.
The storefront was part of a strip mall close to the other shopping centers and next to a grocer, of all things. It was surprising that a successful con artist would choose such a place, but faux modesty probably went a long way in swindling people.
“She told me misfortune was following me,” The old hare woman had said when Amber interviewed her. “A-and she could help cleanse the negative energies in my life.”
“You believed her?”
“Yes: It made so much sense. My car had been repossessed, my septic tank had failed, then there was the tree that fell
Makeshift Ship Building [Ship in Port pt.1] by CrashQuartz, literature
Literature
Makeshift Ship Building [Ship in Port pt.1]
“I’d say at this rate, we’ll be done before we know it!” Rooney beamed, nailing another plank of wood to the makeshift ‘hull’ they’d built so far. Toffee was further down the beach, dragging what looked to be a large chunk of what used to be the mast on his back. “A little… help..?” He wheezed, looking over at Rooney who was still admiring his handiwork. Upon hearing his friend’s call for help though- those big ears aren’t for nothing after all- he sheepishly smiled and bounded over to take up the other end of the mast. “I gotcha, bud! Sorry for uh, leaving you hangin’ there for a bit, heh..” Toffee let out a little sigh of relief as a good portion of the weight was taken off him. “You’re good..” He breathed, and the two heaved the mast over to the.. ahem…. ‘boat’.
The boat was really more like a bunch of assorted boat pieces that’d been found and sloppily stuck together with nails, glue, and a dream. Pieces of wood had been gathered from all across the shoreline, and slapdashed