Welcome to Issue 16 of Zooscape!
Pain, survival, and love. These are cornerstones of life, art, and yes, furry art. Because furry art and fiction is, at the heart, no different from any other art or fiction. It’s beauty that humans create to try to reckon and wrestle with the harshness of the universe. Furry art just happens to dress up in a fancy fur coat with tails and ears, or maybe a shimmering cloak of scales, or even butterfly wings. But beneath those squishy edges, the heart beats the same.
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Death is the Referee by Katlina Sommerberg
Where Does It Hurt? by Amy Clare Fontaine
The Power of Volcanic Love by Carol Scheina
The Reunion by Kristen Hornung
The Pine Lesson by Ian Madison Keller
The Huli Jing of Chinatown by Wen Wen Yang
Funnel Dresses by Priya Sridhar
Entanglement Solved by Stephen R. Loftus-Mercer
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If you want to learn more about the nature of furry fiction — if reading our stories hasn’t given you a clear enough picture, and you want it spelled out for you plainly — check out this essay by our editor in our sister magazine, Deep Sky Anchor:
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Furry Fiction: The Squishy Edges and the Heart by Mary E. Lowd
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