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Howdy. This here is my own version of Bryan and SW's favourite stories list but with a slightly different twist. See this one here includes favourite storys from both shifti and its direct predecessor the Transformation Story Archive.
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{{author note|This is very much a work-in-progress.  It's also "fluff", in the sense that I am not intentionally seeking out a plot. It's more an exercise to chase off the writer's block.}}
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|author=Jon Buck
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"What am I supposed to do?  Call in furry?"  Jerome incredulously tugged on one of his long, pointy, and ''twitchy'' ears. They looked familiar.  He often saw several pairs on real deer while driving to work in the morning, and occasionally braked for them as they dashed across the narrow two-lane highway he commuted to work on.  ''Why do I have deer ears?  What the hell is...''  He looked more closely at his reflection in the fogged bathroom mirror.
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Some of you may note some of the stories that appear on shifti also appear on the TSA. This is because some of these stories were written anywhere from five to ten years ago and  in that time the author has likely made some edits that they felt necessary for that story, thus I will only link to the version on shifti as this is the one the author most likely wants people to read.
  
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Jerome had been so focused on the ears he'd almost missed his nose.
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I should make one thing clear, there are only two prerequisites for a story to appear on this list.  
  
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It was wider, and black, with a rough texture like a dog's.  While not that far off a human nose, there were suggestions of things to come in the shape of his nostrils. His stomach clenched as he tugged on the left one again, only to have it try to twitch out of his grasp.  "Holy shit. What the hell ''is'' this?"
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# I have to have read it.{{favorites list}}
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# I have to have read it and found it particularly enjoyable.
  
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After two days of the weirdest stomach flu he had ever experienced--he could eat vegetables just fine, but any meat just smelled and tasted awful--and strange, nonsensical dreams, he had been awoken by the sounds of traffic outside his bedroom window.  He stared at his cervine ears in the mirror.  "No wonder everything seems so damned loud."  And now previously unnoticed odors were starting to mingle with the noises.
 
  
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He rubbed the leathery skin between his nostrils again, too numb to properly react.  ''I'm out of sick days...'' And he didn't own any hats.  At least, none that would hide his ears.  Let alone anything for his misshapen nose.
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The clock beside the bed glowed 8:30.  If he did a quickstep and got ready right now, he'd just make it to work...  "Damn.  I have a deadline today, too."
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==Disclaimer==
  
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There was some work he could do from home, but telecommuting could only carry the project so far. The university library didn't have a virtual private network, so there were resources he could only get from on campus. The deer ears moved backwards a little as he pondered.  No more sick time, major project due.  Maybe, just ''maybe'' if he stayed in his office and came in the service entrance, nobody would notice.
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There are no other criteria involved in the choosing of this list. Which means that I do not filter out stories of poor grammatical quality as I was lucky to have barely passed high school and would only feel hypocritical if I were to do so. That said though If I cant comprehend what is being written the story is not likely to pass number 2 is it?
  
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Jerome flicked his ears and snorted. "Okay.  So maybe I have a weird makeup job.  Yes... um... a cousin came over and practiced his makeup technique.  He works in a theatre.  Uh... and he forgot to bring the stuff to take it off."  Well, that didn't explain how they could move.  But maybe if he concentrated.
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It also means that objectionable material such as sex and violence are '''not''' filtered. Why? This is because I am hardly the best judge of what could be considered objectionable.
  
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With that paper-thin explanation in mind, Jerome dried off, got dressed, then headed out towards his car.
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For example gore will almost never even cause me to raise an eyebrow. Why? To put it simply I grew up on a farm and have 'personally' bottle fed baby calves,lambs,one motherless fawn we found wandering around one year and a couple young goats or kids as they're called. I have also 'personally' shot dead all of the above mentioned species and more for the purpose of putting food in the basement freezer for the winter. This stuff just doesn't irk me the same way it does some people.
  
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The funny thing is that nobody looked in his direction, even when they were sitting in their car just a few feet away. At a traffic light he purposefully looked at the driver next to him, who looked back with a nonplussed expression on her face.  He flicked one of his new ears at her, and got no reaction. No gasp of shock, no screaming, no pointing fingers.  Just an expression that turned more to "what are you looking at, bub?"
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I would like to point out that '''mindless''' sex and violence turn me off just as much as anyone else so there is at least that small form of content filtering, but that is all you will find in this list. If you read past this brief blurb and encounter what you consider to be objectionable material you have been forewarned and if you skip over this disclaimer and go straight for the storys its your own damn fault. ;)
  
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''Did she even ''see'' these things?'' Jerome wondered. They were rather obvious.  Animal ears on a human head.  And his nose seemed a little different, with a few white hairs in his unshaven beard. 
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All that said though I would like to say that each of these stories below passed my above mentioned number 2 rule.
  
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When someone behind him honked at another light, he jammed on the gas with the hair on the back of his neck standing on end.  He was going well over the speed limit when he got a hold of himself.  "Crap!  Why the hell am I so twitchy?"
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==TSA Stories==
  
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''Because I'm part deer,'' he thought, making the final turn into the library parking lot. ''Unless this is some kind of incredibly detailed delusion. Which it could be.''
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/animal/alwaysreadthelabel.html Always Read the Label ]
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|author=Jack deMule
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|blurb=Horse Manna, reformulated to give your horse a healthier body! Warning: Not for human consumption.
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}}
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/animal/beastdance.html Beast Dance]
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|author=Destrier
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|blurb=An African village allows a man and his horse to participate in a centurys old ritual.
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}}
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/animal/betatest.html Beta Test]
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|author=Destrier
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|blurb=This photo morphing software is 'Really' powerful.
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}}
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/animal/birthdaywish.html Birthday Wish]
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|author=Jack deMule
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|blurb=A man learns the importance of being there for his child.
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}}
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/animal/coldjudgement.html Cold Judgment]
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|author=[[User:Rabbit|Rabbit]]
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|blurb=A pair of civil war Raiders face judgment at the hands of mysterious old woman.
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}}
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/animal/colt.html Colt]
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|author=Jack deMule
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|blurb=An old farmer is forced to put down a mare's colt.
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}}
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/animal/island.html Island]
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|author=[[User:Posti|Posti]]
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|blurb=A man winds up shipwrecked on a very odd island.
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}}
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/animal/raindance.html Rain Dance]
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|author=[[User:Posti|Posti]]
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|blurb=A man investigates a farm that is abandoned save for the horses still living there.
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/animal/transmutationtranscontinen.html Transmutation Transcontinental]
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|author=[[User:Rabbit|Rabbit]]
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|blurb=To win a race for shapeshifters an old competitor must find a hole in the rules.
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}}
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/myth/ayshea.html Ayshea]
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|author=Wolphin
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|blurb= A fishing trip, a woman, and a happy ending.  What more can you ask?
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}}
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/myth/environmentalprotection.html Environmental Protection]
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|author=Equestrian
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|blurb=A man takes a job with the EPA and learns who they really are.
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/myth/fraternity.html Fraternity]
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|author=Equestrian
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|blurb=Initiation usually involves things like cross-dressing, petty thievery, and sucklike. Usually.
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/furry/anubis.html Anubis]
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|author=[[User:Rabbit|Rabbit]]
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|blurb= 1821. A sailing ship at sea. Alone. Isolated. Helpless before events beyond mortal comprehension.
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}}
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/furry/hollywoodfever.html Hollywood Fever]
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|author=Nanomage
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|blurb=A writer is like god. But what happens to the characters when god cant make up his mind?
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/furry/muckingabout.html Mucking About]
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|author=Wanderer
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|blurb=Wandering onto a Muck, a teen gets all mucked up
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/tg/attack.html Attack]
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|author=Keith Morrison
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|blurb=Attack of the Big-Buxomed Bikinied Bimbos is the full title. Honestly.
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/tg/attackpart2.html Attack, Part 2]
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|author=Keith Morrison
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|blurb=Yep, there was a part two.
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/tg/fatlady.html Fat Lady]
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|author=Anonymous
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|blurb=It's rude to stare, no matter how large a woman is.
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{{DF row
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/tg/genderbendersanonymous.html Gender Benders Anonymous]
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|author=Eddie Glover
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|blurb=Like an AA meeting but with a lot more estrogen.
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}}
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/tg/leaf.html The Leaf]
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|author=Liz M
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|blurb=A women uses the wishes granted by a golden leaf to get ahead in the corporate world. But the way in which it grants her wishes isn't quite what she or her son expected.
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/tg/regenesisindistinguish.html Regenesis, Inc.]
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|author=Bill Hart
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|blurb=Regenesis Inc. Indistinguishable from magic.
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/tg/schoolofchanges.html School of Changes]
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|author=Unknown
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|blurb=You'll wish you had gone to this school.
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/misc/dailygrind.html Daily Grind]
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|author=Tal Greywolf
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|blurb=Margaret needs a job and an exclusive night club is hiring dancers. However it doesn't turn out to be quite what she expected.
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/misc/fleeinggods.html Fleeing Gods]
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|author=M.A. Mohanraj
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|blurb=Zeus is back but he really would have been much safer back on Olympus.
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/misc/fracturedtale.html All That Glitters Does Not Have A High Refractory Index Or: How to fracture a fairy tale]
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|author=Anonymous
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|blurb=Not the same snow white and the seven dwarfs you are likely familiar with.
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/misc/inalienwaters.html In Alien Waters]
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|author=Darcy Dallas
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|blurb=A man is frozen alive and revived many years in the future.
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/misc/specialdelivery.html Special Delivery]
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|author=Bob Stein
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|blurb=Vinnie trys a dating service at the suggestion of a freind but winds up getting a chance for much more than just a girlfriend.
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/misc/transformationvignettes.html Transformation Vignettes]
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|author=Mark Gooley
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|blurb=A collection of very short transformation oriented storys.
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}}
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/misc/velveetarabbit.html Velveeta Rabbit]
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|author=Jason the Skunk
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|blurb=An account of the life of a Velveeta Rabbit.
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/misc/whohuntsthehunter.html Who Hunts the Hunter?]
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|author=[[User:Eirik|Brian Eirik Coe]]
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|blurb=After losing a serial murderer in a crash the cop that had been pursuing him becomes his prey.
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}}
  
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If nobody else saw them, then maybe he could admit there was something wrong with him mentally.  Jerome grasped the steering wheel of his car, pondering a visit to the university's psychology department.  ''What's his name?  John Nash lived with schizophrenia for decades and learned to deal with it without medication.  Guess I can do that...  Cope...''  Otherwise, well, the consequences did not bear thinking about.
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===Best of the TSA stories===
  
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The idea that he could avoid meeting anyone was futile to start with. But, as had happened in the car, nobody seemed to even ''see'' his ears.  Jerome even flicked them on purpose, just to make sure.  No reaction.
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The following stories are the best of the best. In my humble opinion as far as what the TSA has to offer.
  
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Somewhere on campus there was something emitting a high-pitched whine.  At first he tried to pinpoint it, his ears rotating like a pair of radar dishes to find the source. But as the noise only got worse, he folded them back again. Nobody else seemed to hear it, but he decided to make sure. He approached a student just outside the library. "Do you hear that?"
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/myth/titanic.html Titanic]
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|author=[[User:JonBuck|Jon Buck]]
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|blurb=The Tsa version is the original but it is also up on shifti at http://shifti.org/Titanic To put it simply the Titanic and the idea of reincarnation is what drives this story.
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/myth/unicornclub.html Unicorn Club]
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|author=Andy Hollis
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|blurb=The person into a unicorn story is not a rare one, but this one sticks out in my mind whenever I think of the idea.
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/animal/circesfunhouse.html Circe's Funhouse]
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|author=[[User:Posti|Posti]]
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|blurb=This is one carnival you don't want to sneak into after hours. Or maybe you do.
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/furry/costumevixengolden.html Costume: Vixen, Golden]
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|author=Kim Liu
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|blurb=Advantechs most popular model. The Vixen, Golden. (CO-V101(G1)) full tactile and sensory feedback Costume.
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|title=[http://www.furry.de/tsa/furry/foxkid.html The Fox Kid]
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|author=Rodford Edmiston
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|blurb=This story is only the iceberg tip of a series about a young teen learning of his fey heritage. If you like what you read here check out the rest of it on stickmakers site http://www.dcr.net/~stickmak/Transformation/FOXKID/index.htm
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The girl looked up from her textbook. "Hear what?"
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==Shifti Stories==
  
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Jerome cupped his hands behind his cervine ears, trying to emphasize them. "Sort of... a screech-chrip-chrip-chrip?  Like there's a fan loose somewhere?"
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This section here is for storys on Shifti.
  
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The young woman shook her head slowly, confused, but also not looking at his animal features. "Nnnooo... Sorry."
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|blurb= This one is about a legion of storm trooper cosplayers who were present at Xanadu
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|title=[[Actaeon Reborn]]
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|author=[[User:JonBuck|Jon Buck]]
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|blurb=The classic tale of Actaeon told in the context of a modern day world where gods and magic live side by side with normal people.
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|title=[[User:JonBuck/A_Kind_of_Paradise|A Kind of Paradise]]
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|author=[[User:JonBuck|Jon Buck]]
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|blurb=The kicker story for a setting based around the idea that people are changing forms but only other changed can see them.
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|title=[[User:Cubist/A_Good_Run_of_Luck|A Good Run of Luck]]   
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|author=[[User:Cubist|Cubist]]
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|blurb=A story about a cheetah morph in the blind pig setting with a unique case of scabs.
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|title=[[User:Eirik/At the End of Time|At the End of Time]]
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|author=[[User:Eirik|Eirik]]
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|blurb=Something is making all the people around the world disappear and one person has figured out what it is.
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|title=[[User:Posti/Circe com|Circe.com]]
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|author=[[User:Posti|Posti]]
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|blurb=Circe is an industrious person these days. She even has a website.
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|title=[[User:Fish/CYOE| CYOE]]
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|author=[[User:Fish|Fish]]
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|blurb=Choose your own ending, a project that Fish is working on intermittently that centers around a large number of college age characters and their experiences with a business selling Virtual Reality experiences.
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|title=[[Doe's Hoof]]
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|author=[[User:JonBuck|Jon Buck]]
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|blurb=Camping out in a National Enchanted Forest is not something to take lightly.
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|title=[[User:Eirik/Change Lady|Change Lady]]
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|author=[[User:Eirik|Eirik]]
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|blurb=Even other realitys have casinos and one person gets to experience a whole range of them in one night.
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|title=[[User:Michael Bard/The Bloodstone's Gift|The Bloodstone's Gift]]
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|author=[[User:Michael Bard|Michael Bard]]
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|blurb=This is a Warhammer 40,000 fanfic that stands up there with what I have read of the warhammer 40,000 novels.
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|title=[[User:Posti/Baylors Rein|Baylors Rein]]
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|author=[[User:Posti|Posti]]
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|blurb=This prince is not fit to rule. What will it take to make him realize that?
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|title=[[Dragon Dancer]]
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|author=[[User:Joysweeper|Joysweeper]]
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|blurb=A Xanadu story of four people who shared one costume.
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|title=[[User:Eirik/Care and Feeding|Care and Feeding]]
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|author=[[User:Eirik|Eirik]]
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|blurb=If you are going to feed the animals at least give them the good stuff.
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|title=[[Echoes]]
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|author=[[User:JonBuck|Jon Buck]]
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|blurb=This is a sequel of sorts to Jons Titanic. If you liked Titanic you cant go wrong with this story.
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|title=[[Escape]]
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|author=[[User:JonBuck|Jon Buck]]
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|blurb=Aliens invade and round up all the humans into camps to control them. Their only mistake is in not paying attention to the animal population.
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|title=[[User:Michael_Bard/Five_Hours%2C_Thirty-two_Minutes|Five Hours Thirty Two Minutes]]
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|author=[[User:Michael Bard|Michael Bard]]
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|blurb=One costumer at Xanadu made the mistake of going as a character that couldn't breath the same air as humans.
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|title=[[Forest Life]]
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|author=[[User:Bryan|Bryan]]
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|blurb=This guy didn't just get off the elevator on the wrong floor, he got off on a completly different world.
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|title=[[User:Eirik/A Gentle Touch|A Gentle Touch]]
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|author=[[User:Eirik|Eirik]]
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|blurb=It takes a gentle touch to tame wild horses.
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|title=[[Halloween Cinderella]]
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|author=[[User:Bryan|Bryan]]
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|blurb=A Cinderella story with a Halloween twist. (What? What do you want from me? A blurb that covers something besides what the title already perfectly conveys about the story? Just read it already. XD)
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|title=[[User:Slyfordtrabbit/Eternal_Glory|Eternal Glory]]
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|author=[[User:Slyfordtrabbit|Slyford T. Rabbit]]
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|blurb=The care bears are out to get you.
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|title=[[User:Mr.Peaches/Have You Heard About the TFORs?|Have You Heard About the TFORs?]]
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|author=[[User:Mr.Peaches|Mr. Peaches]]
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|blurb=A very well detailed story of a college students experience with TFORS.
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|title=[[User:Eirik/Historical Revisionism|Historical Revisionism]]
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|author=[[User:Eirik|Eirik]]
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|blurb=Changing the dominant species of a planet should have dramatic consequences to history.
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|title=[[User:MatthiasRat/A Long-Forgotten Madness|A Long-Forgotten Madness]]
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|author=[[User:MatthiasRat|MatthiasRat]]
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|blurb=Twenty years later William has to return to Montana because of his fathers death, but despite how much he might wish it he wont be able to leave until confronting the tragedy that made him leave to begin with.
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|title=[[User:ShadowWolf/Little Things|Little Things]]
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|author=[[User:ShadowWolf|ShadowWolf]]
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|blurb=An interview style opening story for the Pig and Whistle setting.
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|title=[[User:Posti/Midsummer|Midsummer]]
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|author=[[User:Posti|Posti]]
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|blurb=Be careful about ticking off your boss.
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|title=[[Private Thoughts]]
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|author=[[user:Bryan|Bryan]]
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|blurb=If you had to live a life like what a goldfish in a tank lives, it would likely look a lot like this.
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|title=[[Rachel's Collar]]
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|author=[[User:Bryan|Bryan]]
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|blurb=Rachel's master is a mage, but what is Rachel herself?
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|title=[[User:Eirik/Reality Bites|Reality Bites]]
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|author=[[User:Eirik|Eirik]]
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|blurb=Nanotech is not for pranks.
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|title=[[User:Posti/Reindeer games|Reindeer Games]]
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|author=[[User:Posti|Posti]]
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|blurb=Santa is hiring.
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|title=[[User:Cubist/Second_Heat|Second Heat]]
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|author=[[User:Cubist|Cubist]]
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|blurb=According to the Cliff Notes for this story: The Blind Pig Gin Mill acquires a new regular. A puzzle is solved, and the solution creates more puzzles. A lost soul begins finding its way back.
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|title=[[User:Posti/Simple life|Simple life]]
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|author=[[User:Posti|Posti]]
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|blurb=All Martin the new Tax assessor wants is a comfortable place to sleep and enough to eat. With some basic work to pay for it.
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Twice, three times, four.  The library was literally on the other side of campus from the staff parking area, and there were more and more students and faculty passing by him.  Not one... not a ''single'' one, acted like there was anything out of the ordinary about the librarian.  They either didn't see his ears and nose, or they considered them normal.  He suspected the former.
 
  
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The entire shape of his head was subtly distorted.  Almost-but-not-quite human.  A russet-and-white beard surrounded it all, though it hadn't gone farther than the human-norm yet.  ''Am I going to end up like those deer I pass by in the morning?'' he wondered, stomach clenching.  ''Spend my remaining years dodging hunters?''
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Latest revision as of 11:12, 18 August 2009

Howdy. This here is my own version of Bryan and SW's favourite stories list but with a slightly different twist. See this one here includes favourite storys from both shifti and its direct predecessor the Transformation Story Archive.

Some of you may note some of the stories that appear on shifti also appear on the TSA. This is because some of these stories were written anywhere from five to ten years ago and in that time the author has likely made some edits that they felt necessary for that story, thus I will only link to the version on shifti as this is the one the author most likely wants people to read.

I should make one thing clear, there are only two prerequisites for a story to appear on this list.

  1. I have to have read it.
  2. I have to have read it and found it particularly enjoyable.


Disclaimer

There are no other criteria involved in the choosing of this list. Which means that I do not filter out stories of poor grammatical quality as I was lucky to have barely passed high school and would only feel hypocritical if I were to do so. That said though If I cant comprehend what is being written the story is not likely to pass number 2 is it?

It also means that objectionable material such as sex and violence are not filtered. Why? This is because I am hardly the best judge of what could be considered objectionable.

For example gore will almost never even cause me to raise an eyebrow. Why? To put it simply I grew up on a farm and have 'personally' bottle fed baby calves,lambs,one motherless fawn we found wandering around one year and a couple young goats or kids as they're called. I have also 'personally' shot dead all of the above mentioned species and more for the purpose of putting food in the basement freezer for the winter. This stuff just doesn't irk me the same way it does some people.

I would like to point out that mindless sex and violence turn me off just as much as anyone else so there is at least that small form of content filtering, but that is all you will find in this list. If you read past this brief blurb and encounter what you consider to be objectionable material you have been forewarned and if you skip over this disclaimer and go straight for the storys its your own damn fault. ;)

All that said though I would like to say that each of these stories below passed my above mentioned number 2 rule.

TSA Stories

  • Always Read the Label , by Jack deMule. Horse Manna, reformulated to give your horse a healthier body! Warning: Not for human consumption.
  • Beast Dance, by Destrier. An African village allows a man and his horse to participate in a centurys old ritual.
  • Beta Test, by Destrier. This photo morphing software is 'Really' powerful.
  • Birthday Wish, by Jack deMule. A man learns the importance of being there for his child.
  • Cold Judgment, by Rabbit. A pair of civil war Raiders face judgment at the hands of mysterious old woman.
  • Colt, by Jack deMule. An old farmer is forced to put down a mare's colt.
  • Island, by Posti. A man winds up shipwrecked on a very odd island.
  • Rain Dance, by Posti. A man investigates a farm that is abandoned save for the horses still living there.
  • Ayshea, by Wolphin. A fishing trip, a woman, and a happy ending. What more can you ask?
  • Fraternity, by Equestrian. Initiation usually involves things like cross-dressing, petty thievery, and sucklike. Usually.
  • Anubis, by Rabbit. 1821. A sailing ship at sea. Alone. Isolated. Helpless before events beyond mortal comprehension.
  • Hollywood Fever, by Nanomage. A writer is like god. But what happens to the characters when god cant make up his mind?
  • Mucking About, by Wanderer. Wandering onto a Muck, a teen gets all mucked up
  • Attack, by Keith Morrison. Attack of the Big-Buxomed Bikinied Bimbos is the full title. Honestly.
  • Fat Lady, by Anonymous. It's rude to stare, no matter how large a woman is.
  • The Leaf, by Liz M. A women uses the wishes granted by a golden leaf to get ahead in the corporate world. But the way in which it grants her wishes isn't quite what she or her son expected.
  • Regenesis, Inc., by Bill Hart. Regenesis Inc. Indistinguishable from magic.
  • Daily Grind, by Tal Greywolf. Margaret needs a job and an exclusive night club is hiring dancers. However it doesn't turn out to be quite what she expected.
  • Fleeing Gods, by M.A. Mohanraj. Zeus is back but he really would have been much safer back on Olympus.
  • In Alien Waters, by Darcy Dallas. A man is frozen alive and revived many years in the future.
  • Special Delivery, by Bob Stein. Vinnie trys a dating service at the suggestion of a freind but winds up getting a chance for much more than just a girlfriend.
  • Velveeta Rabbit, by Jason the Skunk. An account of the life of a Velveeta Rabbit.


Best of the TSA stories

The following stories are the best of the best. In my humble opinion as far as what the TSA has to offer.

  • Unicorn Club, by Andy Hollis. The person into a unicorn story is not a rare one, but this one sticks out in my mind whenever I think of the idea.
  • Circe's Funhouse, by Posti. This is one carnival you don't want to sneak into after hours. Or maybe you do.
  • Costume: Vixen, Golden, by Kim Liu. Advantechs most popular model. The Vixen, Golden. (CO-V101(G1)) full tactile and sensory feedback Costume.


Shifti Stories

This section here is for storys on Shifti.

  • 501st, by Joysweeper. This one is about a legion of storm trooper cosplayers who were present at Xanadu
  • Actaeon Reborn, by Jon Buck. The classic tale of Actaeon told in the context of a modern day world where gods and magic live side by side with normal people.
  • A Kind of Paradise, by Jon Buck. The kicker story for a setting based around the idea that people are changing forms but only other changed can see them.
  • At the End of Time, by Eirik. Something is making all the people around the world disappear and one person has figured out what it is.
  • Circe.com, by Posti. Circe is an industrious person these days. She even has a website.
  • CYOE, by Fish. Choose your own ending, a project that Fish is working on intermittently that centers around a large number of college age characters and their experiences with a business selling Virtual Reality experiences.
  • Doe's Hoof, by Jon Buck. Camping out in a National Enchanted Forest is not something to take lightly.
  • Change Lady, by Eirik. Even other realitys have casinos and one person gets to experience a whole range of them in one night.
  • Baylors Rein, by Posti. This prince is not fit to rule. What will it take to make him realize that?
  • Echoes, by Jon Buck. This is a sequel of sorts to Jons Titanic. If you liked Titanic you cant go wrong with this story.
  • Escape, by Jon Buck. Aliens invade and round up all the humans into camps to control them. Their only mistake is in not paying attention to the animal population.
  • Forest Life, by Bryan. This guy didn't just get off the elevator on the wrong floor, he got off on a completly different world.
  • Halloween Cinderella, by Bryan. A Cinderella story with a Halloween twist. (What? What do you want from me? A blurb that covers something besides what the title already perfectly conveys about the story? Just read it already. XD)
  • A Long-Forgotten Madness, by MatthiasRat. Twenty years later William has to return to Montana because of his fathers death, but despite how much he might wish it he wont be able to leave until confronting the tragedy that made him leave to begin with.
  • Private Thoughts, by Bryan. If you had to live a life like what a goldfish in a tank lives, it would likely look a lot like this.
  • Second Heat, by Cubist. According to the Cliff Notes for this story: The Blind Pig Gin Mill acquires a new regular. A puzzle is solved, and the solution creates more puzzles. A lost soul begins finding its way back.
  • Simple life, by Posti. All Martin the new Tax assessor wants is a comfortable place to sleep and enough to eat. With some basic work to pay for it.
  • Tall Tales, by JonBuck. Noone can see that you've changed, except the other people like you.
  • Unexpected Shore, by Bryan. For an alien probe, just communicating with humanity poses an interesting challenge.


New Faves

An area for stories that I have either just read or found a new interest in. Stories will stay here for roughly a month before getting added to the above list.

  • Made Alone Added Feb 08, by MatthiasRat. Changing can be bad enough, being alone in changing can be worse.
  • Naturalization Added Feb 08, by Bryan. High Energy Particle Physics and Satyrs: What do they have in common?


Note that I said 'roughly' a month before being updated. >.>

Haven't been reading as much as I would like recently. Thus there will be a lack of updates to this page for the near future.

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