Ember of the Pack
Maren Voss was twenty-four years old, and she had never once in her life stayed up past midnight on purpose.
Dark and intense nonhuman stories
Stories in NonHuman tagged dark and intense, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 20 to 26 minutes. Writers to know: Signal of Velvet, Token of Ember and Indigo Coda. Readers usually start with “Ember of the Pack” and “The Archivist's Gift”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
Dark and intense nonhuman stories, ranked by readers
01 02 The Archivist's Gift
The address on the scrap of paper was wrong.
03 Salt and Ash
The conference in Boise had run long, and by the time I packed the truck on Friday afternoon I was past tired and into that hollow kind of…
04 Root and Spindle
The road up to the ranger station had been washed out twice since the last dry season, and Ella's old Toyota FJ spent most of the climb in…
05 Rulebook for the Hatch
Stanley Jarvis was fifty-four years old and had lived alone in the same split-level house on Meadowgrove Court for nineteen years.
06 Root Protocol
The basement office of TerraSync smelled like cold coffee and wet earth, and that alone nearly took Ava Pearson apart at the knees.
07 Midnight Tango with a Pearl Monster
The soundstage smelled like dust and old rope, and I mean that in the best way.
08 The Curator's Game
Derrick is fighting with the canopy again.
09 When the Monster Finally Looked Back
*This one came from wanting to write a monster who's been domesticated and a partner who's sick of the leash.