Exploring New Places

There's Always Another Horizon

People travel for all sorts of reasons. Some seek knowledge, others want to escape. An explorer might want to know what lies beyond the seemingly endless desert, but most people just want to get out a little and meet the neighbors. That’s a much longer trip when they live in the next galaxy.

Exploring New Places is an anthology of 19 short stories about anthropomorphic animals venturing into unfamiliar territory, and you can join them. Whether they are a rabbit in a spaceship searching for their creator, bats sailing into the wind, a gorilla student wandering off in a museum, or two-tailed squirrels confronting interstellar explorers; these animals will take you to parts unknown and new worlds of imagination.

Journey with them, and light a candle in a far away place.

Contents

To Drive the Cold Winter Away by Michael H. Payne

In Search of the Creators by Alan Loewen

The Rocky Spires of Planet 227 by Mary E. Lowd

Defiant by Harwich Wolcott

Why Indeed by Pepper Hume

Come to Todor! by Fred Patten

You Are Our Lifeboat by Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen

The Animal Game by Vixyy Fox

Ashland’s Fury by MikasiWolf

Legacy by M. R. Anglin

Umbra’s Legion: Shamblers of Woe by Adam Baker

Umbra’s Legion: Where Pride Planted by Geoff Galt

Beyond Acacia Ridge by Amy Fontaine

One Day in Hanoi by Thomas “Faux” Steele

Welcome, Furries by Cathy Smith

Back Then by Frank LeRenard

Tortoise Who by Mary E. Lowd

I Am the Jaguar by Cairyn

The Promise of New Heffe by Kary M. Jomb