Easter is a Furry Holiday
#21 of Writing Prompt Group Submissions
This series of stories was written for the Writing Prompt Group in response to Prompt 25, which was: write a story that features the result of something emerging from an egg. This work has a similar theme to the Prompt that was written with a Christmas theme, Krampus, the Anti-Claus: A Furry Christmas Carol: https://www.sofurry.com/view/795111. If you enjoy this Easter story series, we suggest that you read Krampus, too.
Easter is a Furry Holiday is a collaborative effort by GoldBunny, Tanuskidoodle, and SilverrFox. The first two tales were co-written by Goldbunny and SilverrFox. The second two tales were written by Tanuskidoodle. SilverrFox wrote the Introduction.
You may read the stories in any order you like, but it is suggested that you read them in the order given. Links are provided at the end of each story to return you to the Prologue so that you may read all of the stories with ease. Enjoy.
Prologue
Easter, as practiced and depicted in popular culture today is like many of our most loved holidays, a bizarre mix of the religious and the secular. On the religious side, we have a blending of the Christian Jesus myth and ancient pagan symbology. On the secular side, we have a means to commercialize the holiday by delivering candy, chocolate rabbits, presents in baskets and new clothes for church on Easter Sunday.
*Though Christmas shares this religious/secular duality with Easter, there is a fundamental difference between the two holidays. As was demonstrated in the previous holiday story collaboration by Tanuskidoodle and Silverrfox, Krampus, the Anti-Claus: A Furry Christmas Carol, https://www.sofurry.com/view/795111, there is a dark side to the winter festival we call Christmas. In concert with the delivery of presents to the good by a saint, comes also the distribution of punishment from a devil. *
Unlike its winter counterpart, Easter does not have a dark or punitive association. No grotesque and malevolent creature accompanies the Easter Bunny on her (see below for a rationale for a female Easter Bunny) joyful rounds of delivering treats to all regardless of their personal behavior throughout the year. Perhaps it is the difference in the time of year that divides these otherwise close sibling holidays in this manner. Christmas is closely coincident with the shortest and darkest day of the year when the world itself seems on the eve of death. Easter, conversely, occurs near the vernal equinox when light once again conquers darkness and the day becomes steadily longer than the night.
In spring, the world is reborn with new growth and new life, which makes Easter an overwhelmingly positive celebration of rebirth, renewal and fertility. Both the older pagan religions and modern Christianity have taken advantage of the nature of this season to celebrate renewal in their own way. The older religions placed a greater emphasis on fertility, and hence sex, and adorned the celebration with rabbits, eggs and chicks. A baby sheep was added to this menagerie by Christians to represent Jesus as the Lamb of God and the cross was added to symbolize His resurrection.
*The authors, therefore, argue that Easter is an unambiguously furry holiday. Its central character is a rabbit, who is at a minimum at least mildly anthropomorphic. In some depictions she is nearly half human. She is surrounded by other animals and symbols of sex and fertility. What could be more furry than that? *
Why do the authors insist of proclaiming the Easter Bunny to be female? Consider that males are but a vessel for carrying and delivering sperm. It is but a small role in the creation of life. In some species the male is reduced to a parasite that clings to the female or is absent all together and unnecessary. It is the female who produces the egg, caries it to term and delivers the new life into this world. Since new life is the fundamental underlying theme of this holiday, the ruler of this celebration should be the one who creates life.
Surrounded by all of this happy fecundity, it would be a blasphemy to write stories of malevolent retribution as was done for Krampus. This work shall therefore be unlike our previous holiday account of the Anti-Claus. This series of tales will instead honor the benevolent spirit of new life and joyful sex. Each narration shall thus be imbued with positive themes.
Since the Easter bunny is very busy this time of year, she has no time to narrate these stories as she would like. Someone has to produce, deliver and hide all of those eggs. In her stead, she has volunteered a special helper to introduce and help tell each story. Please follow in any order you like one or all of the four links associated with each narrator to find out how the virtuous receive and "eggstra" special present on the first Sunday after the first full moon occurring on or after the vernal equinox (i.e., Easter):
Story 1 - Dana and Tory: A Story of Transformation (as told by Nachahnem the rabbit)
https://www.sofurry.com/view/836360
Story 2 - Ana and Petr: A Story of Rebirth (as told by Yellow the chick)
https://www.sofurry.com/view/840902
Story 3 - A Boy and His Dog: A Story of Devoted Love (as told by Wilda Woolworth the lamb)
https://www.sofurry.com/view/836368
Story 4 - Tannon and Baxter: A Story of Love Transformed (as told by Ditto the Pokémon)