An impromptu partnership with an affini gone horribly right.

When an Affini outpost and the object of Phoebe’s spy assignment for the Rebellion turns out to be an elaborate “floret-run” hotel, she begins to wonder if she’s in over her head.

The Human Domestication Treaty has just been signed as an apathetic doctor continues his hated routine but when the rebels curse him with being conscripted into the rebellion perhaps he may find that the curse has provided him with the perfect opportunity to become an adoring pet

Sometimes, it’s the simple things that are the most important. And without anything else, all that’s left are the simple things.

Loretta is a former rebel in an escape pod and only a vague idea of how she got there. Luckily the Affini responding to her distress beacon is excited to help. An HDG Story.

Carina is a virologist who absolutely does not want to be domesticated. Unfortunately for her, she is now stuck in a quarantine hab with an affini for two weeks! Will she survive with her freedom intact? An HDG story.

After Aurora is traumatized by a bad run in with rebels, it is determined that she can no longer take care of herself and must be domesticated. Her rescuer and the only Affini fit for the job, Ennervia, doesn’t believe she can handle a floret. An HDG Story

For an aging revolutionary, the arrival of the Affini means salvation for her people — but it also marks the beginning of a new fight for liberation.

One ambitious Terran engineer’s scheme to break out of her class leads to the creation of new life: sentient, yes, but not sapient… at least, not by design. What is life to a machine that no longer has any purpose, and how will one eager Affini help her answer that question?

Human domestication guide anthology, exploring the many purposes a pet can have in the Affini Compact

Bernadette is an independent, self-assured woman who doesn’t need some alien invaders to tell her what to think… right?

Short stories written in the Human Domestication Setting made up of random ideas that come to mind.

Sarah, A cyberneticist and unwilling rebel finds herself face to face with the creatures she had heard so many horror stories about. How will Sarah fair when clutching vines drag her off to an unknown fate. A HDG story.

(A story in the Human Domestication Guide universe) A human, lost for their purpose in life, had always felt weird whenever they thought about florets. But they didn’t want to be one. They were just curious! Just curious what it feels like, that’s all…

A lone, traumatized girl turns herself in to the affini out of desperation. She has many enemies the affini wish to protect her from, but what they don’t realize is that they may well top the list.

After getting forcibly drafted and stuck on a Free Terran Vessel, one womans journey to becoming herself leads her to realize that perhaps getting captured was a blessing in disguise.

Lieutenant Wolfgang Locke, OCNI, is captured by the Affini. The first duty of an officer, when captured, is to escape, and that’s precisely what Lt. Locke intends to do. Or, at least, he would, if he could move. (A Human Domestication Guide story)

We’ve captured an Affini, they said. This will turn the tide of the war, they said. She is every storybook monster you’ve ever wished would steal you away and you have never known anything as surely as you know that this will not end well.

A struggling young woman and a hypercompetent alien get stranded in space, and need to figure out how they can work together to get home despite their… cultural differences. Wiggle on over to https://archiveofourown.org/works/41618376 for the rest.

(An HDG story) A human’s eye is caught by a seemingly distant, expressionless affini. Turns out, he may be just what she needs to let her guard down a little. [Continued on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45074374]