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?

An active sophont goes for a walk in the park :3

Kink-light microfiction from the world of HDG.

Half-cybernetic secret agent November is on the trail of a deadly pirate queen, but something else got to her first. Can November survive facing a bigger fish with her wits and will intact? No, obviously not. A darker kind of Human Domestication Guide story.

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

Kira is very good at running away from things. Maybe a little bit too good.

An impromptu partnership with an affini gone horribly right.

Upon declaration of war, Elara Mulberry Milknova knows what she has to do. Steal some goddamn affini tech, reverse-engineer it, and then run deep into space where she can finally be alone with her experiments.

The Affini are kind, smart, generous, and always firmly in charge. That’s just how it works. …Right? (A Human Domestication Guide story)

In the year 2551CE The Terran accord pushed forwards with the design and construction of an experimental starship, but when a new Alien race invades can a young starship make a difference? (No not really the terrans never stood a chance.)

When an Affini pet is too much of a danger to themselves or others, they are considered for Class-O xenodrugs. Their minds are obliterated under the constant pleasurable assault. But what if something else took over. What if that something woke up.

Zoey Coleman thought that fleeing into the barren tundra and becoming a rugged survivor would save her from the Affini menace, but quickly she learns that she’s not alone. and she isn’t leaving the tundra without becoming a pet.

A navy wife struggles with her missing partner and Terra’s surrender while learning to accept help from others. A young Affini arrives at the home of her passion and learns more than she could imagine. An honor bound Captain brings deliverance to her crew.

The planet of Centhia has long been ravaged by constant conflict and brutal capitalist exploitation. For Many of the human citizens, domestication is the best future that the affini can give them. An anthology of shorter stories in the HDG setting.

(A short in the Human Domestication Guide world) A rebel finds herself in a dead end. She wants to resist the affini, but how can she do that if she can’t even resist her own changing thoughts?

A Human Domestication Guide story. You are an adored floret, and your Mistress frequently watches Affini television with you.

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.

A slowly dying android with a thirst for battle faces a world of insurmountable odds: very nice plant people. How long will they last? How many fights will they win? Who is the mysterious Terran? And what is the point of human independence if you aren’t even human?

Former OCNI agent Christina Long, in the last moments of Terran Resistance on Cervina II, manages to acquire a mystery vial of xenodrugs. When she attempts to chase one last high, she is surprised to learn that there is more to the Affini than she was led to believe.

A terraforming scientist is suffering on an isolated planetoid, separated from his wife by the war with the dastardly Affini. Unfortunately, they might be his only chance for help. Will the couple be re-united? And what internal truths will be revealed along the way?