STORIES FROM THE WORLD OF “OTTERS IN SPACE” AND BEYOND
In a future where otters take to the sky, filling it with spaceships and space stations, the animals who stay behind become the keepers of the Earth. Dogs and cats continue their squabbles, and squirrels make cities that tower like trees.
Follow the paw prints… and find yourself far beyond the moon!
Part I – If You Can Fly
- Fetching Asteroids — Jordan is a Labrador Retriever with a dream. [~300 words]
- A Real Stand-Up Guy — A pug dog comedian wrestles with mixed feelings about his on-stage persona. [~3,500 words]
- High School Dogs — Katasha is the only cat at the high school dance. [~1,000 words]
- Marge the Barge — A Newfoundland dog is not naturally graceful on the ice, but perhaps a tabby cat can teach her to be. [~6,600 words]
- Not All Dogs — When Petra gets arrested, Lucky finds himself managing their three adopted kittens on his own. [~4,200 words]
- Chestnut Wish —An otter tries to make it through the day, living among squirrels, and caring for an otter toddler. [~1,800 words]
Part II – Don’t Stop at the Sky
- Ecto-Busters One — Sunny wants to stop for a snack, but the demons pouring out of a portal on the top of the Great Dane building will not wait. [~1,400 words]
- Ecto-Cafe — Sunny, a hungry yellow lab, stops for a snack and finds herself battling a cafe full of haunted baked goods. [~4,200 words]
- Where Have All the Mousies Gone — A mouse brings her grandmother back after ten years, for one last moment. [~1,000 words]
- Tortoise Who — A mouse is taken on an adventure across time and space. [~4,000 words]
- Chrysalis Can Wait — A caterpillar becomes companion to the Time Tortoise. [~8,000 words]
- Sandbeard the Pirate Otter — An intrepid pirate must rescue an ocean world from boiling under blaring sunlight. [~700 words]
Part III – ‘Cause There’s Footprints
- Dry Skin — A salamander struggling with addiction goes on a blind date and finds more than she expected. [~3,200 words]
- The Mouse Who Was Born a Bear — Maureen never felt right as a bear. [~1,200 words]
- Octopus Ex Machina — Chaos happens at the Re-Incorpus summer pool party, and Lora thinks she’s figured out who’s behind it all. [~3,400 words]
Part IV – On the Moon
- The Moon Like an Unhatched Egg — Four uplifted birds compete for the right to represent Earth on a mission to Mars. [~2,800 words]
- The Dreaming Arm — The dreaming arm convinces the seven other arms its connected to that they should seek out something from its visions. [~400 words]
- Galactic Garden — Ariadella spins galaxies with her silk. [~1,200 words]
- Jumping Jellyfish and Singing Salmon — Kipper, Trugger, and Jenny from the Otters In Space series get pulled into an alternate universe with magic. [~2,700 words]
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