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This is a collection of short stories set in the same timeline as the novel. Some occur after the novel itself, while others take place in present time or the recent past. Some are set within the novel itself, expanding on portions of it as seperate stories that help shed some additional light on some of the characters.
This short story is set midway into the novel, covering one of the ways that lycanthropy spreads beyond Scott and Elodea. It takes some of my obsessive-compulsiveness about dirty spoons in restaurants and applies that towards a dysfunctional couple in need of change.
This short story is an entry in the heavily under-represented genre of the child werewolf as a metaphor for HIV and/or alternative lifestyle as the target of social and political blacklisting. Set in 2020, this story covers Gerald Wilson, a young man caught up in the politics surrounding lycanthropy.
Selena Hawthorne, the creation of my friend Heather Varley, was more than an incidental character; she was a visitor from Heather's own timelines. This story gives some additional insight on Selena's part before and during the novel, detailing some of the background referenced there in their old relationship. It also shows Elodea putting that relationship squarely in the past and helping to shape Selena's future.
Set around 2020, this is one of the first short stories I did, written as I was still finishing up the novel itself. In it, someone sits in the office of a new kind of doctor to await testing, to see whether or not she will undergo the change.
Set inside the novel, this story chronicles a series of dreams Scott Gardener has as he debates with Elodea whether to risk exposure as werewolves in order to help their friend Lisa free herself from an abusive spouse. The dreams are a parody tribute to Batman, both the campy Adam West version of the sixties and the darkly Gothic version of the late eighties and early nineties.