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This was a story I worked on for a forum writing contest. I've decided to share it here as well (I might also post it on Furaffinity soon). Please don't steal. Edit: since some people asked, I will post the site my original entry was from. But before I do, if you plan on taking part in voting for story entries, do so fairly; don't just vote for mine because I posted it here! The story was from here).

It happened so suddenly. There was news of a plague coming from one of the eastern European countries. Maybe it was an old Soviet experiment that finally got loose. Regardless, humanity learned about it too late. The incubation period was almost a month long and consisted of very mild flu-like symptoms. After that, things began to happen. Your teeth and hair fall out first, this takes several days. While that happens your bones begin to change shape, your face elongates and your feet go digitigrade. Hair starts growing all over your body, thicker than normal hair, or what used to be normal. Claws erupt out of your fingers and carnivorous teeth burst out of your gums. Finally, after months of agony, it ends. And where a human patient once was, there is now a monster. I know all this because I am a victim of this disease, as are nine out of every ten other humans. My days no longer feel normal. The physical agony is gone, but the knowledge that I will never go back will haunt me until the day of my death. The face I see in the mirror is not mine.

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Day 2 of our curated animal poems, courtesy of Shining River

Billy Collins Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House
James Wright A Blessing
Ted Hughes The Thought-Fox

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I know people are excited to get drawing furry, but while /r/furry is a place where you can post practically anything (don't get me wrong, post to your heart's content), keep in mind /r/furryartschool is more specific for first drawings and things you're insecure about. It's often overlooked and it shouldn't be. You'll always get some kind of critique, and it's guaranteed to be constructive. You're not gonna get much karma, and I think this is what turns a lot of people off. Don't worry about karma when you're first learning to draw/write/do furry things, critique from artists and non-artists alike can be more useful than all the karma on reddit. Still, if you're in it for the praise and "reddit money", I suggest posting in /r/furryartschool to test the water before you come here.

Plus the mods work really hard to keep FAschool awake and fresh.

submitted by MRjarjarbinks
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Papabear,

So, I've been dating this wonderful fox, and he's sweet and caring, and just about everything I could have asked for. Sounds great, right? He also has this bad habit of being shallow, and seems to consider it a badge of honor that he, quote, “Stayed with me when he saw what I looked like,” even though he constantly says he thinks I'm beautiful and pretty. I'm only two hundred pounds, but he can make me feel like I'm two thousand. Other than this one thing, he's nearly perfect; neither he nor my friends seem to understand that it hurts ... a lot, as I have tried to discuss my feelings with them. Am I just being insecure or what?

Rose (age 20)

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Dear, Rose,

There is a difference between being “insecure” and being offended by an insult. Insecure people find fault with themselves even when nobody is saying anything bad about them, but if someone deliberately insults you, you are permitted to get pissed off. You were insulted in a very passive-aggressive way that is quite infuriating and reveals your fox to be a shallow git. We have a bit of a contradiction here in that in one breath you describe him as sweet and caring and, in the next, shallow and insulting. You can’t be both. He has a serious character flaw.

Now, as I’ve said before in this blog, no one is perfect. We all make mistakes and say stupid things. But it sounds like fox does this on a pretty regular basis, and you have tried to explain to the fox (and friends) that when they belittle your appearance  it hurts your feelings. Yet, they keep doing it. Why? If fox is really a good (and halfway intelligent) person, he would feel bad for what he’s done and stop insulting you because he cares about you.

Now that I’ve told you you’re not being insecure, you need to go to him and demand a straight answer: “Which is it? Do you think I’m pretty or not?” If he says not, then you have your answer and you should probably find a new boyfriend. If he says you are, then ask, “Then why do you make me feel bad about my weight?” The answer you will likely get is something lame such as, “Oh, I was just teasing you; I didn’t mean it.” Then you come back with, “If you don’t mean it, then why say it?” If he repeats that it was a joke, tell him you don’t find it funny and he needs to stop it now. Or, if he just gets tongue tied and makes no reply, tell him to get back to you when he figures it out, but in the meantime you don’t want to see him.

If I were to make a guess, judging by your letter, I would say fox is keeping you as a girlfriend until someone skinnier comes along, and then he’ll dump you. He flatters you on the one paw to keep you (have you had sex with him? that’s a motivation on his part, as well), but he insults you to keep the door open for when he decides it’s time to find someone else. This is highly manipulative and reprehensible behavior, I hope you will see.

If I were you, I would give fox two choices: either the insults stop, or the two of you need to break up. You deserve better.

Hugs,

Papabear

FOUR hour early dismissal and now I have nothing to do. Talk to me ye who are in school/working/off!

Edit:75 comments later, I think we chatted this up a lot! Let's keep going I say!

Edit 2:Just went 11/1/2 in League, feeling pretty happy. LET THE TALKING, BEGIN!

Edit 3: We made it past 100 comments! Congrats guys!

Edit 4: Passing 150 comments! Largeness!

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Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer. The Prince Who Fell from the Sky, by John Claude Bemis. NYC, Random House, May 2012, hardcover $16.99 (259 [+ 1] pages), Kindle $5.98. In this Young Adult fantasy (recommended for ages 8-12; grades 3-7), humanity is long extinct. Intelligent but feral animals have taken over […]

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