Doug's Fiction



Here you can find all the fiction I personally have written - or, at least, all that I am willing to place for public consumption on the net. These are all entire stories, not partial tales, and while I claim all rights reserved to myself, Doug Linger, I admit that by putting them up here I risk them being stolen. Which is why I'm not placing anything up here that I intend to actually sell. I have on my hard drive a handful of stories that I think are good enough to consider that angle.

Most of the stories here involve transformations. It's a pretty common element in my stories. If you want to know why I like them so much, just ask someone why they like chocolate and you'll get a similar answer: they don't know, they just do. If you don't like this sort of thing, if you think it's cliche or tired or a sign of a disturbed mind, that's cool with me. Just don't say you weren't warned.


Standalone Stories

Back to Nature
My first collaborative story, with Jon Sleeper. Not much plot, just enough to excuse the transformation.


Free
One of my favorites, about how sometimes it takes a miracle to cure grief.


The Fugitive
Not my best story, a short tale about, well, a fugitive trying to evade capture.


Loving Halloween
Inspired by my start into making fursuits and the onset of Halloween, this story is a perfect demonstration of the principle, "The grass is always greener on the other side."


Sell By
An early story that is really a big setup for one line at the end. And it's not even a very good setup. It seemed a good idea at the time.


Ten Seconds
I was feeling rather depressed when I wrote this short. Getting it on paper helped, somewhat. This is more a mood piece than anything else.



Shared Settings

I highly recommend that you read the initial story, and possibly other stories in the setting, before you read these tales. Some things will be a lot more clear, that way. As stories, they stand alone, all except one of them, but the settings the stories take place in may be confusing if you don't.


Winds of Change
A universe by Jon Sleeper

Most of humanity doesn't know three universes, including ours, has just collided. What they do know is that all adult humans have transformed into various anthropomorphic animals. Many of them gain superhero-like powers, to boot. This raises all sorts of problems...


Trickster's Gold
Sometimes, you have to lose to win. This is the first story I wrote, and I still think it's one of my best.
Change Day
Powers That Be
A Betting Man (Coyote)
Home Is Where the Head Is
Karma


The Teen Round Robin
I join Brian Eirik Coe, Jon Sleeper, Trey Mcelveen, and Bryan Derksen in a collaborative tale about five teenagers lives as they start to Change. This has pretty much fallen by the wayside as each of us ran out of free time to write so regularly, so there's some major plot threads that are dangling free and will probably eternally remain so.



Tails from the Blind Pig
A universe by Mark Van Sciver

An alien virus brough back on a space probe has killed something like a sixth of Earth's population. And some of the survivors have... changed.


Hard Times
Not everyone was "lucky" enough to be transformed only partially into an animal. This was possibly the first story to use a "fullmorph" character.


The Best Medicine
My avatar gets some payback for a prank, and in the process gets a little of himself back as well. This is the sequel to Brian Eirik Coe's Everything's Wild.



Spells 'R' Us
A universe by Bill Hart

This is more of a shared plot element than a story universe, since the only thing most of the stories under the title have in common is the store that wanders from location to location, with a propetier that has something of a penchant for turning his customers into animals and, much more commonly, bimbos.


Where's the Beef?
The Wizard has a tendancy to give out products with directions that are impossible to follow. Darn near, anyway...



Walk a Mile
A universe by Bob Stein

This store sells more than used shoes. It sells a chance to start over, as nearly anything you want.


Replay
Some shoes really are made for you and you alone.



Xanadu
A universe by Bryan Derksen

The world is drastically awakened to the fact magic exists when at a SF/F convention in Florida, everyone wearing a costume turns into what they are dressed as - and with the powers that go with it. And since the con took place a week after halloween and there were major prizes for the masquerade, there's an awful lot of freaks suddely loosed upon the world.


Far Indeed From Sherwood Forest
Bryan convinced me to write a story based on one of my fursuits. It should be pretty obvious which one. And even as I and my companion try to cope with our new selves, we find ourselves pursued by someone we managed to get angry at us. A very, very dangerous someone, and very, very angry...



Refamiliarization
A man goes to Kubla Con as his RPG character, and finds that he's just locked himself into a new carreer. This was my very first moneymaking story. I was commissioned for this shortly after writing the Xanadu story above.




Stories for Sale

These are the titles and a little teaser info abous the stories that I am not going to give out or put on the web, because these are stories I hope to sell and publish. So unless you are a book publisher, editor, or agent, please don't ask for a copy of these stories.


Hate Triangle
Set in an alternate 16th century Hungary, the necromancers rule the city of Morobrany. But not everyone likes that fact. Even the undead can feel put upon at times.


Henhouse
A vignete, short enough that if I tell you much about it I'd ruin everything. More a mood piece than anything else.


Horse Thief
Inspired by Turtledove's Between the Rivers, the story of a thief in ancient times who gets punished by his own God for his impertinence. But that's not the end, not by a long shot!


Wizard Wood
In a world where magic and technology co-exist, there will be a time when balloons and locomotives are new and wonderous. Rivermore wants to be rid of the cursed forest that is only a short distance away. But such things are never easy...



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