'Tis Pity He's a Horse: mm shapeshifter novella by Parker Foye

Author:Parker Foye [Foye, Parker]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Tenebrosity Press
Published: 2019-12-13T00:00:00+00:00

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"No, Tils, you're not listening. He called me," James said, gesturing at his reflection in the kitchen window. His kitchen was pokier than the one at the farm, and the window looked onto Alnwick High Street instead of acres of well-loved land, but the people-watching paid dividends.

"How the fudging heck did he get your number? I thought you'd blocked him?"

Tilly had been in the yard with Jessica when James called after spending a restless night stewing on Simon motherfucking McAllister's latest unwelcome reminder of his existence. Her vocabulary of child-acceptable curses was impressive.

"My number's on the fudging website. He called me 'Jim' as well. You know I hate that. Should I be worried? I mean, he's not a bad guy." Sure, he was possibly trying to expose James's four-legged secret, but still.

"James." Tilly's voice was low and stern. She sounded like their mother. "He tried to dope you."

And there was that, of course.

A woman outside, perfectly poised despite her burdens, carried four coffees and a small dog. James bet she had her life together. He swirled his own coffee, cold in its takeaway cup. Four coffees seemed like a lot of responsibility.

"He didn't try to dope me. He tried to dope Ruckus, and in fairness, he didn't know we were the same person. Horse. Whatever. No wonder he was angry when I finished with him. How the hell could I explain that?"

Tilly's sigh made the speaker fuzz. "On the one hand, yes, I see your point now as I saw it then. On the other hand, when you finished with him, he smashed your fu—fudging window, you monkeyfudging moron!" James heard Jessica giggle in the background, her high voice repeating, "Monkeyfudging!"

The reminder made James wince. Simon had smashed the passenger-side window of James's car, using his phone as a hammer, after James calmly explained their relationship didn't seem to be working. They hadn't spoken to each other in nearly a year.

The breakup had been a shadow in the corner of their lives for a while. Simon wanted to breed horses to sell for enormous profit abroad and was particularly keen to send Illustrious Ruckus to stud, the thought of which repelled James on so many levels it was a fight to stop himself throwing up whenever Simon mentioned it. James, on the other hand, was content to work on his family farm and maybe, eventually, apply to university. They'd exchanged heated words once or twice, about James's lack of ambition and Simon's cutthroat attitude, and it was obvious there were no legs to the relationship.

James could have timed things better, with Simon glum due to missing out on a prize at Burghley, but James'd been riding a wrathful high after narrowly evading being doped by his own fucking boyfriend. He'd said quiet words about wanting different things, how he'd enjoyed what they had and wished Simon well both personally and professionally, and then he'd ducked out of the way to avoid getting safety glass in his eyes.

Sanjit had

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