Chosen: Chapter Six
**Chosen** **Chapter Six** ** ** _Written by Arian Mabe (Amethyst Mare)_ _Commissioned by Chirmaya Nashaar_ _ _ ** ** "You need to relax." Tayna scowled. Relaxing was easier said than done. She paced back and forth on the hillside,...
Chosen: Chapter Five
**Chosen** **Chapter 5** ** ** _Written by Arian Mabe (Amethyst Mare)_ _Commissioned by Chirmaya Nashaar_ _ _ ** ** Tayna didn't know how long she ran for. For a time, it was effortless as dark melded into light, paws pounding rock and coarse...
A Blue Morning
**A Blue Morning** ** ** _Written by Arian Mabe (Amethyst Mare)_ _ _ ** ** It’s strange to wake up like this, like a cloud is hanging over me. No, that’s not the right thing, not the wording I’m looking for. It’s wrapped around me,...
Self-Care for Furries: Volume I
**Self-Care for Furries** **Volume I** ** ** **Arian Mabe** ** ** ** ** ** ** **Introduction** ** ** It's a strange thing to consider, just how self-care works and why it's important to us. Being in the furry fandom,...
Black Ice
**Black Ice** _Written by Arian Mabe (Amethyst Mare)_ @arianmabe _Cover art by Orobas_ _No one could possibly watch the hunger artist continuously, day and night, and so no one could produce first-hand evidence that the fast had really been...
Mascara
**Lifeline** **Mascara** _Written by Amethyst Mare (Arian Mabe)_ The grey-haired wolf perched upon the stool beside her dressing table, the surface of which was decorated with ornate flowers. She had chosen simple but tasteful furniture that suited...
Bursting Bubbles
**Bursting Bubbles** ** ** Life begins as a blank playing board with no squares, no dice and certainly characters to speak of. Bar yourself, course. You take centre stage. For, in this game, you are the most important player of all. This is the one...
Revenge
**Revenge** _Written by Arian Mabe (Amethyst Mare)_ _A monologue._ _ _ The cogs started turning with the bloody apple. No, no - the apple wasn't bloody, but the blinds, the blue blinds, were splattered with the stuff. Those painted bricks, the...
Power
**Power** _Written by Amethyst Mare (Arian Mabe)_ I don't care that tears are dripping down my muzzle. I tip forward, forelock hanging over my eyes, and watch them stream over chestnut. They tickle my nostrils in that split second before gravity...
From Man to Moo: Trapped and Transformed into a Dairy Cow
**From Man to Moo** **Trapped and Transformed into a Dairy Cow** ** ** ** ** Mack woke in a struggle, writhing and twisting to no avail as he gasped for air, lungs working and struggling as if he had been strangled for some time. His...
Shades of Grey
**Shades of Grey** ** ** "You're ridiculous. No one's ever going to take you seriously, don't you know that?" The chestnut mare set her jaw and threw a buck, head between her forelegs. The black stallion over the electric fence tape snickered...
Encounter
**Encounter** _Written by Arian Mabe (Amethyst Mare)_ Fog writhed in a great sweeping mass across the beach, twisting and coiling with the wind as if it were alive, sentient. The sea could not be seen by everyday eyes, but the feel of it was...