Before I met her, my girlfriend was in a horrible relationship with a hypnotist. Thankfully she managed to escape, and we built a new life together. Everything seemed so perfect. Until the one evening that changed everything.

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.

A young sophont awakens in an Affini hospital with no memory of her past or her former self. After being informed that she is apparently a “Floret”, she decides to fight a legal battle for her independance. But when she meets a certain kind and caring plant will her plans change?

An artist reflects back on life under the Affini Compact.

Rachel agonizes over taking one last pill to make everything better as she remembers the way her addiction changed her life.

A homeless, anxious, and lost woman on her way to find a job in the big city is interrupted by the terran colony getting invaded by aliens, the affini. An oddly friendly 10-foot tall plant alien finds and rescues her, and uh… wait, what’s this about human pets? An HDG story