"Rite of
Passage" (1988) All stories are © Tim Susman, all rights reserved, except where otherwise noted.
This is a story set in a world I created early on, site of a lot of stories and an unfinished novel. It doesn't contain any anthropomorphics per se, but it does have more "furry" elements than the other stories in that world. [27 KB]
I submitted this story to Yarf!, the journal of applied anthropomorphics, and through a combination of unfortunate factors, I didn't find out that they'd printed it in issue #33 until #35 was out. Reaction was pretty positive to it, and I'm glad; I spent a lot of time working on this one. [28 KB]
Many of my stories have rather depressing endings. This one did, originally, but I was talked into a somewhat more upbeat ending by a friend. I should listen to him more often. This appeared in the Confurence 6 program book with an accompanying illustration by John Nunnemacher that was so beautiful it drew attention completely away from the story. Oh, well. [5 KB]
