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Pokerface

I still remember the first time I lied. I never lied as a child. I'm autistic – it's anathema. It's not that we can't or won't lie, if push comes to shove. It's that, for most of us, we'll always avoid it whenever we can and, when times force our...

Atheism, BDSM, Chameleon, Character Development, Christian, Colorshifting, Covers, Desert, Fragmentation, Headmates, Identity, Lie lying, Masking, Noir, Paganism, Philosophy, Plural, Prism, Quicksilver, Reptile, SFW, Sea, Short Story, Sibyl, Transformation, Transgender, autistic, jungle, martial arts, mercury, polyamory, postmodern, psychology, spy, spying, trans, truth, tundra

Off Limits

_"Time for bed, sweetie."_ _ Fran looked crestfallen. "Can't I just stay up until the next commercial?"_ _ Her mother grinned, endeared yet still reproachful. "You always say that." The days always seemed so short. Whenever they were at an end, all...

Abduction, Action, Alien, Alien Abduction, Atheism, Atheist, Battle, Bird, Bug, Cockroach, Cyborg, Daughter, Death, Duck, Electricity, Family, Female, Fight, Glowworm, Hook, Insect, Jackal, Liquid nitrogen, Mammal, Mother, Multifurry, Net gun, Noir, Novel, Parrot, Peg leg, Pirate, Pistol, Portal, Quantum Physics, Roach, Rubber, Rubber Duck, Science-fiction, Story Arc, Transhumanism, UFO, Wormhole, combat, cutlass, dragonfly, flamethrower, glue, knife, loss, multi, puffin, space opera, space pirate, toucan, whip

Die A Thousand Deaths

'Everyone has secret words that can save them. Everyone has secret words that can kill them.' (Unknown) "So they weren't slaves?" "Not technically," Fran's best friend had answered. "I'll be gosh-darned," the jackal had shaken her head....

Alternate Society, Anarchosocialism, Android, Ankylosaur, Bird, Blue Jay, Character Development, Cyborg, Death, Dinosaur, Duck, Electricity, Female, Flashlight fish, Food, Glowworm, Great wall, Heron, Immortality, Insect, Jackal, Knitting, Machine, Mammal, Mantis, Needles, No-Yiff, Noir, Novel, Parrot, Plant, Plot Development, Police brutality, Postfurry, Pterodactyl, Rainbow, Rainbow trout, Roach, Robot, SFW, Sci-Fi, Science-fiction, Smilodon, Socialism, Space, Suicide, Transhumanism, albatross, anarchy, anemone, knife, lava, prohibition, pyramid, seaweed, trout, volcano, wall, wood carving

Fill The Void

Klein wished it'd been easier to get ahold of Mano sometimes. While the two of them had spent a lot more time together after having run into each other at the Bolgia all that time ago, both recovering from their respective losses, they'd been too...

Android, Bat, Blood, Blowfish, Cannibalism, Chimera, Crocodile, Cyborg, Dolphin, Dragon, Dryad, Eel, Female, Fish, Gore, Hybrid, Lion, Machine, Magic, Male, Morphing, Octopus, Otter, Plant, Ram, Robot, Shapeshifting, Shark, Skunk, Snake, Spider, Suicide, Taur, Transformation, Witchcraft, cult, genetic engineering, voodoo, vore, xenophilia

The Spirit of the Law

"We are spirits in a material world." (The Police, Ghost In The Machine) "She was hooked up to one of those machines, you know?" Fran had nodded. "Hardest thing I ever had to do," her best friend had shaken her head. "Well, they're battle...

Activism, Adventure, Alien, Alternate Society, Amnesia, Anarchism, Anarcho-socialism, Anarchosocialism, Android, Anteater, Aromatic, Asexual, Atheism, Atheist, Barter, Beaker, Bird, Bird of Paradise, Book, Bug, Burnout, Car, Character Development, Cigarette, Cockroach, Communism, Counseling, Coyote, Crime, Crinoid, Cyborg, Death, Depression, Dinosaur, Dodo, Duck, Female, Fish, Freezing, Friendship, Ghost, Giraffe, Hybrid, Ice, Immortality, Insect, Investigation, Jackal, Lamprey, Machine, Mammal, Mantis, Metal, MtF, Multi-fur, Multi-furry, Multifurry, Murder, No-Yiff, Noir, Novel, Partners, Pilot, Piloting, Plant, Plot Development, Police, Possum, Postfurry, Programming, Questioning, Reptile, Roach, Robot, Rock, Rubber, SFW, Scarf, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Science-fiction, Scifi, Ship, Socialism, Space, Space pirates, Story Arc, Suicide, Tardigrade, Theft, Therapy, Trade, Transgender, Transhumanism, Transport, Transwoman, Trilobite, Weapon, Whodunit, Working, ace, albatross, anarchy, antlion, ants, aro, bodyguard, cig, coding, cops, danger, dragonfly, driving, engineer, euthanasia, flamingo, friend, independence, invertebrate, killing, mental health, multifur, orchid, partner, phobia, phone, pirates, planet, roommate, safety, smoke, spaceship, tech, technology, tendrils, trading, trans, transportation, trenchcoat, trust, work

Bat Outta Hell

Rakim and his mother moved to the West when he was but a child. He only remembered bits and pieces from those days, the way one tends to half-remember things from early childhood, before one is even of age for kindergarten. Buildings, landscapes,...

Arabic, Bat, Character Development, Dervish, FTM, Family, Female, Fire, Immigrant, Irshad, Islam, Male, Mammal, Mother, Muslim, Political, Rakim, Silat, Son, Sufi, Transgender, Veil, bullying, chiroptera, coming of age, ifrit, martial arts, moth, transman

Concerning Flight

Like the other teenagers at his high school, Rakim took an interest in video games. While the lower middle class meant his range of access could be somewhat limited, it became something he'd spent spare money on as soon as he had it, at least, for a...

Arabic, Bat, Character Development, FTM, Female, Flight, Flying, Gay, Homosexual, Immigrant, Irshad, Islam, Male, Mammal, Mother, Music, Muslim, Political, Rakim, Series, Silat, Son, Transgender, bullying, chiroptera, coming of age, martial arts, sound, transman

Set In Stone

* * * * * * "What does she do, exactly?" Fran's best friend's story had been about a serial killer. "She never even touches them," the jackal's best friend had started. "She just talks to them. She learns everything about their lives, their...

Alien, Alternate Society, Anarcho-socialism, Anarchosocialism, Android, Asexual, Avian, Bird, Blue Jay, Book, Bug, Cockroach, Communicator, Communism, Cyborg, Death, Deinonychus, Dinosaur, Female, Fire, Fish, Forest, Friendship, Game, Giraffe, Hybrid, Ice, Immortality, Insect, Jackal, Knitting, Mammal, Mosquito, MtF, Multi-furry, Multifurry, Museum, Mushroom, No-Yiff, Noir, Novel, Piloting, Plant, Pleco, Postfurry, Reptile, Roach, Rock, SFW, Sci-Fi, Science-fiction, Scifi, Simulation, Socialism, Space, Stone, Story Arc, Story Progression, Story Series, Tardigrade, Transgender, Transhumanism, Tree, Trilobite, Wood-carving, Zoo, acacia, ace, anarchy, ants, cane, friend, gaming, hamster, hummingbird, multi, multifur, partner, phone, roommate, talking, technology, trans, video game, work

Uncarved Block

'Thou shalt not carve any graven image.' (Ten Commandments) Clients would come to Mandrake for help - he wouldn't seek them out. People would hear about the fact that he'd been someone who'd listened to people, so when they'd had problems that...

Chameleon, Christianity, Daoism, Dryad, Dysphoria, Gnosticism, Golem, Hybrid, Judaism, Lion, Mammal, Morphing, Mustelid, Naga, Otter, Reptile, Science, Shapeshifting, Shut-in, Snake, Spider, Statue, Taur, Therapy, Transformation, amoeba, animism, clams, metamorphosis, psychology

Do No Harm

"So, you're here for a month, then?" Klein had sometimes wondered just how much you could and couldn't tell about people based on what their living quarters had looked like. Sometimes, it could be easy to jump to conclusions based on assuming too...

Acupuncture, Blowfish, Candomblé, Daoism, Female, Fish, Gay, Homosexual, Hybrid, Kuji-in, Male, Mammal, Morphing, Mustelid, OCD, Ofuda, Otter, Shapeshifting, Shinto, Skunk, Stingray, Transformation, Video Games, capoeira, mephit, parkour, plushies, polyamory, polytheism, urchin

Wonderland

"Eli, is... is there anything I can do to help?" The turtle-crab had raised an eyebrow quizzically at her. "To help with what?" Mano hadn't known how to broach the topic. "Have you ever thought about seeing someone? About everything that happened, I...

Atheism, Crab, Depression, Female, Fish, Hybrid, Lesbian, Multifurry, Octopus, Psychological, Religion, Reptile, Suicide, Turtle, multi, xenophilia

Cockroach Motherfuckers

"There's two kinds of work in the world." Fran's roommate was a communist. "First, there's work-that-stays." She was also a writer. "Then, there's work-that-goes-away." The jackal didn't write, herself, but she'd asked about what made her roommate...

Alien, Alternate Society, Anarchism, Anarcho-socialism, Anarchosocialism, Avian, Barter, Bird, Bug, Character Development, Cockroach, Communism, Cyborg, Electricity, Female, Friendship, Immortality, Insect, Jackal, Knitting, Mammal, Mantis, Mother, Multi-furry, Multifurry, Multitasking, No-Yiff, Noir, Novel, Plant, Plot Development, Political, Postfurry, Resurrection, Roach, SFW, Sci-Fi, Science-fiction, Smoking, Space, Story Arc, Story Progression, Story Series, Teleportation, Transhumanism, anarchy, antennae, mental health, multi, multifur, smoke, space opera, spaceship, swearing, trading, trenchcoat, wood carving