Wet snow sprays from Arara's paws as she bounces after her father, who is checking his trap lines. Falling snow from the trees platters around her. In the distance branches crack and fall, broken by the weight of the melting snow.She's supposed to be at school today, but she convinced him to take her hunting instead. School is horrible anyway. This is so much better. The warm spring air brings her spirits back up that had been brought low by schoolyard bullies.Her father's ...

Can an unlikely friendship save the day?Arara's ears flatten to her head and her lips pull back into a snarl. Kerka chuckles and tries to kick her, but Arara hears the thought coming and dodges easily. The rest of the hunting party, classmates their own age, snicker and wag their tails in amusement. She longs to run away, but today is special. Their hunting trial. Leave, and she'll still be considered a pup and be stuck here another year at least.Prince Sels walks at the he...

Arara's ceremonial armor itches. She feels self-conscious standing on the stage in front of hundreds of people, including her parents. Dark clouds overhead rumble with distant thunder, drowning out the words of the Queen. Arara walks step-in-step with Sels, merged as one with him. Yet something still feels like it's missing.Prince Sels jumps as lightning hits in the distance. Someone screams, and armored Jegera rush the stage with swords, swinging at him. An angry mob, trying to st...

Have you ever read a book or novel and wondered why they even bothered to make certain character(s) in the book something other than human? Want to avoid that in your own work?There are some simple steps you can take to make your anthropomorphic (or furry) characters stand out on the page. This guide will walk you through step-by-step how to build a believable furry species, world, and characters.Includes downloadable worksheets to get you jump started on your furry writing...

The only thing more dangerous than trying to kill a dragon is trying to make one pay taxes.One doesn't turn down a king, so Sybil accepts the job despite her misgivings. Usually she's slaying dragons, not talking to them. Instead of collecting the tax, she unknowingly delivers a curse that leaves the dragon helpless, and she can't bring herself to slay him.Trapped in a body not his own, the dragon Riastel is scared and defenseless. Sybil finds him charming,...

Our world is a dynamic and fascinating place. Differing societies, economies and climates shape narratives and experiences wherever one can explore or visit. Past or present, the world is always evolving and creating new stories. But how would these tales change if, instead of humans, the world was populated by anthropomorphic creatures?Take a world tour with eight stories written, selected and edited by members of the Furry Writers' Guild. Explore the hot and humid jungles of the ...

Join a neko girl as she falls in love with a swan girl in a version of Steampunk London. See how a mail carrier deals with finding out she's a Chihuahua shifter. Go on time-traveling adventures with an old mouse woman. Run the Iditarod with an unfortunate Chihuahua. Attend magical college with a hopeful horse mage. Go on a camping trip with a transgender white-tailed deer, and more in this magical, furry collection of previously published short stories by author Ian Madison Keller....

A collection of horror short stories by Ian Madison Keller centered around a very furry apocalypse.Read about a park ranger who needs to escape from intelligent forest creatures out for her blood, a house cat who must decide between revenge or helping her friends, a girl trying to remember who she is with the help of her ghost dog, a vampire who steals the wrong artifact and ends up in over her head, and a half-bat girl out to solve a series of brutal murders....

Ynes has enough on her hands living in a house packed with magical creatures. But her gadgets and witch's potions are enough to get her by--until she's caught by surprise without them when she needs them most.Determined to gain intrinsic magic of her own, Ynes girds herself for her most fraught encounter yet: visiting her mother.Note: This story originally appeared in the anthology Ink Stained and Spellbound as "Inked Up" by Roan Rosser.

"Those Persians had sand, and I have oceans, but it's the same vast expanse that casual people assume is empty." – "Luigi's Song", Jude-Marie GreenThe ocean is vast and mostly uncharted. In these nineteen stories, authors imagined some of what might be happening under the surface of the waves. Or in some cases, on dry land when water-dwelling creatures pull themselves out of the ocean into a world of furry and feathered animals that they struggle to relate to.Dance in a cut...

The seedy port of Beachcliff has a pirate problem. What they don't know is they also have a dragon problem.Sybil has no idea how to make good on her promise to break the curse on the dragon Riastel. Especially while penniless and on the run from the king himself.Her main form of income, slaying dragons, takes on a different light with one as a lover. When he is kidnapped by pirates who demand she slay the dragon terrorizing the coast, Sybil must make a toug...

While chasing down an informant, a Chihuahua accidentally ends up in the middle of the Iditarod dog race across Alaska.