Playing mix and match with Gaia's gifts leads to trouble for some of her creatures, but Coyote comes up sounding good.

Today’s story is “Coyote’s Voice” by Friend-of-the-Fireplace Altivo Overo (just @Altivo on Twitter) who is a horse of many colors if you only see in black and white. You can find more of his stories on Furaffinity, Weasyl, and Furry Amino under Altivo, and on his Goodreads.com author page as Altivo Overo.

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Today’s story is “The Lion Sleeps” by Friend-of-the-Fireplace Frances Pauli, author of the Serpentia series, and you can find more of her stories on francespauli.com. 

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In a cold, grey metropolis of corporate drones filing to and from their tiny apartments with terrible landlords, the business wolf Randall Shepherd struggles to find himself a true, modern wolf pack and restore some color to his bleary life.

Today’s story is “Lone” by SignificantOtter, editor of the anthology Species: Otters. This story was first published in the anthology Species: Wolves, and you can find more of his stories in the anthologies FANG volume 9, Dogs of War, or Arcana.

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Today’s story is “Hot Dog” by Ben Goodridge, who wrote “Akela” for Goal Publications and “Found: One Apocalypse” for Furplanet, and you can find more of his stories on www.ben-goodridge.com.

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Brontes, bad-tempered bull that he is, gets his comeuppance from a pair of cougars. Retaliation never works, and the poor minotaur ends up stuck fast in a way that is just not fair.

Today’s story is “At The Inn” by Metassus, whose sole claim to fame is his 365 Word Tales. This (sadly) is not one of them. You can find more of his wordsmithing and photography on Fur Affinity and - if he ever fixes the site - metassus.com.

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Kinse the kobold has never met a dragon quite like Wylia, but she’s determined to give her the best party she can!

Today’s story is “Unpredictability” by Nenekiri Bookwyrm, who is a dragon that makes games and writes stories. He’s also been known to paint and play the ukelele on occasion. When he’s not reading from his hoard of To-Read books, he makes time to write some stories of his own. You can find more of his stories on www.nenekiri.com.

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Today’s story is “A Day With the Skaraks” by C.F. Becker, a 3D artist whose work can be found on FurAffinity under the name CannonFodder. As you can guess from the name, his work explores themes of war and the soldiers who fight it, but such a broad subject captures ideas from all across the fandom. This story is an example of that depth.

The story was originally written as an accompaniment to a four page, full-color, textless comic drawn by the talented furry artist Samareck. The comic can be found on FurAffinity and on Samareck’s website at DeviantArt.

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A lighthearted fantasy story about a raccoon who plays a trick on two hounds to save his skin, and then finds out that wishes have a way of coming true.

Today’s story is “The Wishing Tree” by Renee Carter Hall, a fantasy and science fiction author whose most recent book is Signal from Goal Publications, and you can find more of her stories free on Curious Fictions.com.

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Food, Feuds and Fake Flora is a story about when office lunch theft goes terribly wrong...

Today's story is “Food, Feuds and Fake Flora” by Ocean Tigrox, originally published in ROAR 6 - “Scoundrels”. Ocean is an award-winning author and editor, known for the Inhuman Acts anthology and the Fangs and Fonts podcast. You can find more of their work on their SoFurry page: https://ocean.sofurry.com/

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A toucan basketball player, about to go pro, revisits his humble roots in his Argentine hometown.

Today's story is “Returning” by friend-of-the-fireplace Toledo the Horse, whose furry literary exploits mostly follow an Argentine toucan working through anxiety, alienation, and acceptance. Oh, and also basketball sometimes. You can find more of his stories on FurAffinity.

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