Most of my stories are science fiction/fantasy, and a lot of them feature anthropomorphic animal characters. About a dozen are set in a fantasy world called Ranea, where humans and “animal people” live in a loosely-federated empire with a magic-based technology roughly akin to late 19th century America’s industrial level. There’s also a couple non-fiction pieces. The majority of these are not available online; some of these were collected by Sofawolf Press in the collection Why Coyotes Howl (January 2005).

FurAffinity

I’m placing new (and some old) stories on FurAffinity currently; the stories listed below are likely to be reproduced there. Since FurAffinity’s styles for displaying long-form text are—and I mean this in the nicest possible way—horrific, I’m uploading them as PDFs. Stories available there include (but may not be limited to):

• Carrier
• The Narrow Road in Morning Light
• Why Coyotes Howl
• Travelling Music

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On this Site

• Kitsune: Coyote of the Orient is non-fiction, an informally written overview of Japanese fox lore done for “Fuzzy Logic,” an online fanzine that later transformed into the furry community website Flayrah.com.
• Shattered Stone is a Ranean vampire story, but about “classic” vampires, not the vampire bats who’ve appeared in some other works I’ve done. It’s not a White Wolf gothboy angst-fest, and tends to get gratifying “I don’t like vampire stories, but this was pretty cool” comments. I'm rewriting the story right now, so I've taken it offline for the time being.
• Otter Summer is quiet magic realism.
• Rabbit Pens is, at 35,000 words, the longest complete piece I’ve ever done; it was starting to be serialized in “Touch” but they only printed the first third before going under. This is a revised version. It deals with sexual situations and decidely mature themes; it’s definitely not for the easily discomfited.

There are several other older stories of mine at The Belfry Archives, including the novella “A Gift of Fire, A Gift of Blood,” which introduced Revar the vampire bat. Revar may be the most popular small-press character in all of “furry fandom” (an informal name for fans of anthropomorphic animals), in large part due to the adoption of the name and character by the Belfry Archives’ maintainer—also very well-known as the author of the MUCK server and clients Fuzzball and Trebuchet, respectively.

Bibliography

Stories marked with a dagger (†) are in Why Coyotes Howl, all of them in revised form from original publication (if any). The observant will notice a huge honking gap between 1998 and 2008, and indeed only “Why Coyotes Howl” was written in that time; while I’d been contributing to an APA (essentially a closed membership small press co-op) under during that time, I wrote very little for public consumption. This is slowly changing now, though, as I write new things as well as rewrite some older stories I think deserve revision.

• “Carrier” (Eurofurence 14 Con Book, 2008)
• “The Narrow Road in Morning Light” (New Fables #2, 2008)
• “Why Coyotes Howl” (unpublished†)
• “The Moon in Water” (unpublished†)
• “Daughter of Shadows” (unpublished†)
• “Without Evidence” (unpublished†)
• “Shattered Stone” (YARF! 54-55, 1998)
• “Still Life, With Espresso” (Mythagoras 2:1, 1996†)
• “Vertical Blanking” (Xero 1, as “Recondite Directives,” 1995†)
• “The Fox Maiden” (PawPrints 3, 1994†)
• “Otter Summer,” (Caffeine Quarterly 1, 1993)
• “Dreams Are For Vixens” (Touch 1, 1992†)
• “Wounds” (Caffeine Quarterly 2-3, 1992)
• “How George Miles Almost Saved the World” (YARF! 14, 1991; collected in Best of Show, 2003)
• “Rabbit Pens” (novella; Touch 3 [2 chapters only], 1991)
• “The Peppermint Demon” (novella; Touch 2, 1991)
• “The Lighthouse” (novella; YARF! 16-19, 1991)
• “Travelling Music” (Mythagoras 2-3, 1990†)
• “The Fence” (The Furkindred, 1990†)
• “Beast” (Mythagoras 1, 1990†)
• “A Gift of Fire, A Gift of Blood” (novella; YARF! 5-8, 1990)
• “Going to the Dogs” (Reagent 1, 1989)
• “Charcoal and Amber” (FurVersion 18-19, 1989)
• “Only With Thine Eyes” (FurVersion 14, 1988†)
• “Playing the Hero’s Role” (FurVersion 10, 1988)