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Promised Land

Eli's parents had disowned her for having moved away to the Middle East with Mano, but Eli hadn't cared. If anything, she'd been only too glad to cut them out of her life as well. Mano missed her parents sometimes, but children grew up, pursued love...

Activism, Atheism, Cephalopod, Character Development, FTM, Fish, Hinduism, Hybrid, Immigrant, Interfaith relationship, Journalism, Lesbian, Love, Mollusk, Octopus, Poet, Shellfish, Story Series, Turtle, alice in wonderland, cthulhu, darwin, hermit crab, invertebrate

Surface (Chapter 4)

I don't think i've ever told you this, but atheism's never been associated with hopelessness for me.

Lesbian, Octopus, Skunk, Suicide, Turtle

Join The Dance

The room that Klein walked into was bare and white, like an empty vessel. There were two life-sized mannequins resting at its center, laying half on top of each other in a heap with strings folding down around them. As he approached them, the strings...

Atheism, Battle, Chameleon, Chess, Crustacean, Dancing, Fatalism, Fight Scene, Fish, Free Will, Lobster, Mammal, Philosophy, Religion, Reptile, Shifting, Skunk, Story Series, boxing, capoeira, combat, cult, existentialism, martial arts, surrealism

Society, Culture, and General Planetary Traits

I thought about adding it under the religious section since it would be a consequence of their atheism, or the government one since governments would ultimately be overseeing it, but this one i feel is the best.

Cultural commentary, Roketsune, Takomen, background, culture, society

Fishers of Men

'How cheerfully he seems to grin...' (How Doth the Little Crocodile, Lewis Carroll) Ammut had been left on the doorstep of a Brazilian orphanage before he'd been old enough to have known how to talk. He'd been far too young to have even remembered...

Atheism, Blowfish, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Chimera, Christianity, Crocodile, Dolphin, Eel, Extrovert, Fish, Gay, Homosexual, Hybrid, Introvert, Lion, Love, Male, Mammal, Reptile, Shark, Shinto, Staff, Turtle, Vegetarian, genetic engineering, hermit crab, psychology, urchin, vore

Saltwater

Mano had tried to have been just as optimistic about them moving from the Middle East to Brazil as she'd been about them having moved from India to the Middle East in the first place. Cephalopods were relentlessly curious creatures, always exploring...

Atheism, Death, Dream, Dryad, FTM, Female, Fish, Gendershifting, Hinduism, Hybrid, Lesbian, Love, Reptile, Romance, Salt, Saltwater, Sea turtle, Shapeshifting, Skunk, Suicide, Survivor syndrome, Transgender, Yoga, darwin, hermit crab, lucid dream, tragic, transman, water

Midnight in Central Park

atheism was one of those odd things for gods. there were christian gods, hindu gods, shinto gods, even native american gods, but no atheist gods. charles darwin, no matter what some people might think, was not a god.

Anubis, Dog, Girl, God, Magician, Man, New York, Novel, Story, Wepawet, woman

Face The World

The raft on the canal between the rows of cow carcasses led Mano to a white door with a scale carved in, Libra-like. There was no doorknob, but one of the scale's sides was high while the other one was low. Looking closely, she saw that the high one...

Anglerfish, Atheism, Battle, Cephalopod, Cetacean, Cow, Crab, Dolphin, Dream, Female, Fight Scene, Fish, Gender Shifting, Gore, Hybrid, Lesbian, Male, Music, No-Yiff, Octopus, Poetry, Religion, Series finale, Story Series, The wall, Transgender, Turtle, Whale, combat, cult, hammer, martial arts, surrealism

Old Wounds

It was raining when he found him. He'd been out looking for the skunk for what felt like far too long, considering how little time he knew he had. Possibly also considering how long it had been, depending on just what he meant by that. But the longer...

Agoraphobia, Atheism, Blowfish, Cephalopod, Chimera, Claustrophobia, Darts, Doctor, Dolphin, Eco-terrorist, Female, Fish, Gay, General anxiety, Lesbian, Male, Mammal, Mollusk, Morphing, OCD, Octopus, Otter, Poetry, Rain, Religion, Shapeshifting, Skunk, Transformation, Turtle, Weasel, cult, hermit crab, mephit, umbrella, water

Into The Abyss

'Let me hammer him today!' (Pink Floyd, The Trial) Mano's path led her back up out of the water and into a corridor that led her to a rowboat on a canal. Approaching the rowboat to sit down in it and pick up its oars, a chill went down her spine...

Anglerfish, Atheism, Bat, Blowfish, Cephalopod, Chameleon, Chimera, Crocodile, Cyborg, Dolphin, Dryad, Fish, Golem, Hinduism, Hybrid, Lion, Lobster, Octopus, Otter, Pigeon, Ram, Rat, Shark, Skunk, Snake, Spider, Taur, Turtle, Weasel, electric eel, hermit crab, jellyfish, urchin

Deep Blue

He finally noticed her from above the pier as he flew overhead. Scylla was tied up to a pole, plunged so deep into the earth under the shallows that went back and forth between high and low tide between the shore and ocean that there was no way that...

Android, Atheism, Bat, Blowfish, Cards, Chameleon, Chess, Christian, Crab, Crocodile, Crustacean, Cyborg, Daoism, Dolphin, Eskrima, Fish, Hybrid, Islam, Jewish, Lobster, Machine, Ninja, Octopus, Otter, Robot, Shark, Shellfish, Shinto, Silat, Skunk, Turtle, animism, capoeira, carp, hindu, urchin

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