Because I sympathized with animals...
This thing came to pass where I was envious. This thing came to pass where I thought I was not free. This thing came to pass where I saw people were not free. I perceived there to be some great shame, was I wrong? I was ashamed of my own...
Owning My Humanity -- Anxiety
I am in a considerable deal of ongoing pain--and while that's not a particularly engaging way to solicit an audience--pain being what it is--I feel it important to qualify my position. My pain is that of concentration, and of feeling it constantly...
Owning My Humanity -- Commitment
"Eventually we all have to make commitments to the things we hold dear, or risk losing them entirely." I had thought about this, and questioned--'do I value being a person'? On the one hand, you have expression, art, communion with friends and...
Come With Us To Gomorrah, Opportunity Knocks But Once
What is the reality we dream of? I sat pondering this, scraped and scarred in the dust, as I watched my fellow man putting bullets through each other's brains. On a better day, in a better context, maybe it was giving your life for your country, or...
Monster Called Man
"That's despicable. And you 'worship' this entity?" "The concept, anyway. We worship the strength our animals provide us." "And you... 'turn' yourselves into these things?" "You would see it no differently; converting to any other faith." "Few...
Foxhunt
Woke up this morn, got up, idea was on my plate No time to contemplate reach for the moon A sordid imagery forced within my face Undid time Counting days, countless nights independent Time erased, glass goldfish bowl cage On this solid...
Dispersal of the Prince
"Why don't you embrace this power--let it overcome you--turn you into the foul-smelling creature that you can be..." "Disgusting!" "It feels fantastic, though--the power of an animal." "No, give me back my hands!" "They're not yours anymore. They...
A Conflict of Minds
"Why would you want this?" "Because." "Just because?" "Because I want..." "What, to escape accountability? Responsibility? Animals have those things too." "Leaving aside for a moment that human beings 'ARE' animals to begin with..." "But that's...
Perplexion of the Lady
It was not a baleful or maliciously deliberate change, but though it was neither painful or forced, the Lady found herself taken aback by her new form. When at first she coordinated her body, it did not respond as it might have prior the...
HIVE Mother - Chapter 2
Lupa might have been a good cop, once--before the change. She didn't really know, or care now--but it was an ironic thought as her new baby trampled one of the Detroit precinct's police cars--smashing in its windows with his back legs, and crashing...
HIVE Mother - Chapter 3
Doggy smells filled the air--and she caught sight of her husband at last--warming his hands over a barrel of burning trash. Her three oldest boys circled and greeted the newcomer that had joined their mother, sniffing each other's butts, hackles raised...
Essence in the Fur
Breasts of the babe, touch of the fur... It's the illusion young men chase now, It's a look some would put on. I'm the dreaming victim of the Essence in the Fur. Hot and cold, wet nose, warm breath, slippery tongue-- And the smell of dog. The...