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An out-of-place arctic fox has finished the first step in her adult education, and can't decide between which life path to take. It's hard to make a choice when your relationships are crumbling around you. Perhaps some recreational hunting will help clear her head… right?
9k words; some post-ingestion violence.
Posted by alockwood1 2 years ago Report
Well, an interesting story. Would like to see more of this sort of series.
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Posted by ObsidianSnake 2 years ago Report
Thanks! This one is a semi-prequel to the story Private Lessons.
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Posted by alockwood1 2 years ago Report
I read that one.
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Posted by FirstOf71st 1 year ago Report
There's something about the way you write hunting scenes the future-era Eanlian works that I find irresistible every time. Imagining sneaking through a modern urban setting on a hoverboard, as a beautiful superhuman beast, equipped with the latest tools of the trade, and with full sanction of the law -- it's peak power trip. Doesn't matter who the predator is, or who they're hunting -- but maybe that just goes to show how I've never really disliked any of your predator characters. Even if Eliviza gets a few points knocked off here for selfishly exploiting legal loopholes.
Taklia's good too though! I'm a big fan of characters with "nice," or "innocent" personalities encountering the wider world (and their own desires), and then learning to reconcile the contradictions between them. Come to think of it, that's almost another running theme throughout your work, I feel…
Also, that lovely third-to-last sentence -- truly, less is more in these stories.
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Posted by ObsidianSnake 1 year ago Report
I've always thought that legal institutions/concepts around man-eating is still an unexplored frontier. That's why hunting hours struck me the way it did! It's an alien concept, unsettling and fascinating. It enables kinds of experience, states of being, too.
Personally, I've enjoyed breaking the mold with predators that have overall pleasant dispositions or positive intentions, at least in terms of how they see the world. Besides, an obligate carnivore isn't obligated to be a jerk about it.
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