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....

In the throes of a convention full of geeks, Frog Jones told a story.That story is found in this book's foreword, but the key line from that story became the title of this anthology. The authors seized upon that line, much like an out-of-control bovine seizing its own halter, and stampeded into the volume you see before you.This is not just a comedy anthology. Nor is it horror, or romance, or literary, or…well, any one thing. Rather, it is all those things. Each story starts ...

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...

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 ...

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...

"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...

Sybil knew trying to raid the dragon's lair was a bad idea. Worse, she discovers too late that she's the bait.Now trapped in a cave with an angry dragon, Sybil must use all her wits to survive.

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.

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

20 Kinds of Stupid: An Anthology of Idiot Heroes and Ridiculous Heroinestwenty fatally flawed flash stories by Holly Lisle and studentsIf there’s one thing more fun than writing awesome stories, it’s occasionally indulging in the worst excesses and writing awesomely bad stories. Holly Lisle and a group of her students put all of the most clichéd, badly formed, and just plain wrong techniques into as few words as they could, and gathered them togeth...

“A phoenix rises from the ashes because it cannot burn in them.”Dannika Dark presents the first book in her most addictive urban fantasy series to date. A world of magic so compelling that readers keep going back for more...Raven Black hunts evildoers for fun, but her vigilante justice isn’t the only reason she’s hiding from the law. Half Vampire, half Mage, she’s spent years living as a rogue to stay alive. When a mysterious Shifter offers...

“WE ALL HAVE SECRETS, RAVEN. DARK ONES. EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US.”Book 2 in the Crossbreed seriesTwo weeks after joining Keystone, Raven Black is ready to take on the world as a criminal hunter for hire. If only her partner wasn’t a bloodsucking Vampire with a penchant for getting under her skin. Despite her lavish surroundings, Raven misses the freedom of life without rules. And Keystone’s next assignment is about to test her self-control ...