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?

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

A shrewd girl with a rough past fell into a coma. When she wakes up humanity no longer governs itself. Her new affini owner tries to adjust her to her new reality and let go of her past.

A transfem pirate that lives for the game of battle, a bubbly shackled VI, and a man. The perfect team. A love that cannot be broken. Until the plants show up and all their trauma is to be healed. By force if necessary. The humans take issue with this, of course.

After saying some unfortunate things while drunk, Olivia is forced into conversations with a floret and her Owner to help alleviate her fears. Unfortunately, the floret is her long-estranged ex. An HDG Story

The middle of a war isn’t exactly the best time to figure out who you are, and fighting a hopeless rebellion is even worse. But maybe there’s still a chance for it to all work out. A Human Domestication Guide story.

A woman adjusts to life aboard an aquatic space-station. Lesbian things happen. Plant soft. Based in the HDG universe created by Glitchyrobo. Updates weekly.

A pair of humans, along with their coworkers, are rescued from the wage cage as part of the Terran cotyledon project.

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.

Autumn keeps telling herself that nothing is wrong.

Centuries before the Compact would ever know of humanity, an Affini gets thrown from the future into a small clearing in California in 2005, meeting two most adorable stoners and embarking on a quest to fix the past, ensure the future, and pet some truly deserving sophonts.

(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…

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

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 collection of short one-shot stories taking place in the HDG universe

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

A Human Domestication Guide story featuring a traumatized plant who needs an emotional support sophont and a human who needs to be useful.

Venisin Lanse, Eighth Bloom, has been assigned a problem floret-to-be. And she might just be the right affini for the job. But not all is as it seems… An HDG deconstruction.

An Affini composer who doesn’t think she could ever take proper care of a Floret. A human musician who craves Domestication, but wants everything on her terms. After an old friend nudges Presa and Sia together, can they make a relationship work despite themselves? (A HDG story)

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.