With FA down, there was discussion of recommending stories, and I wanted to not only recommend the old stuff, but to chronicle it both in its relevance to me and perhaps its relevance to others.About two years ago I posted a journal with lots of links to old furry stories. But I went to check, and most of those links are busted. After digging through Archive.org, I found all the gems I could, and these links should laster. These were the stories that shaped me as a furry and an adolescent. I hope you remember them fondly - or, if you've never read them before, I hope you find something here you enjoy.

Warning: These stories may not be as good as my nostalgia goggles permit.

Before the days of FA/Yiffstar, roughly between 94 and 2003, the place to go for furry stories was either Mia's index, or http://www.yiff.nu/" rel="nofollow ugc noreferrer noopener">Furry Pleasures - VCL had stories too, but it was such a pain to navigate. I remember Furry Pleasures with great nostalgia; it was my first exposure to furry at around age 14, and I read stories way more than I looked at the art. I remember posting stories I wrote on there - before, realizing how beyond shit they were, I asked them to be removed.

That may be where I saw the first furry story, and the first erotica I ever read, A Dog and her Bone. A German shepherd goes fox hunting, only to discover foxes have uses.

I think that if you read furry stories at that time and were into women, you read Silverfox's http://www.yiff.nu/Hetro/outfoxed.txt" rel="nofollow ugc noreferrer noopener">Outfoxed, a story about a man who orders his very own vixen slave from the furry-making corporation, I guess. This was the first time I ever saw the "humans created furries" trope, and from what I understand the ending is still a surprise. Silverfox and I go way back, and I didn't realize he had actually been the author of this until later.

There were many stories I remember being smoking hot -
Eye of Aphisis is a Sword & Sorcery story about two thieves who break into the temple of the Goddess of Pleasure, and things go sideways. I remember finding this story on a non-furry site, boy was I glad I did.
http://www.yiff.nu/Hetro/tutbond.txt" rel="nofollow ugc noreferrer noopener">Tutor Bonds is one that sticks out clearly. Desperate, horny virgin skunk girl, raccoon tutor - oh yeah.
http://jabba.tlh.fdt.net/~crystal/s...../promise.html" rel="nofollow ugc noreferrer noopener">Promises and Desires is a story about a male horse trying to stay virtuous to his fiance while he's trapped on a spaceship with a tigress in heat.

Okay, I just glanced through Cabin Fever - great it is not. It's just two girls and a guy in a cabin for a hot threesome. But nostalgia goggles, man.

It wasn't all just dirty smut. I remember getting butterflies in my stomach reading http://www.yiff.nu/Hetro/tencare.txt" rel="nofollow ugc noreferrer noopener">Tender Loving Care, about a man who finds an injured vixen in the forest, and nurses her back to health.

The above are single stories by single authors. But there are three authors and their stories I want to talk about.

Allen Kitchen

Kitchen wrote well. One of his stories had a little sex in them, but I remember they were far more about the plot and the characters.

I think many readers would recognize http://www.yiff.nu/Hetro/tutor.txt" rel="nofollow ugc noreferrer noopener">My Tutor Has Six Tails and its sequel http://www.blkbox.com/~osprey/finals.txt" rel="nofollow ugc noreferrer noopener">Final Exams, a series about a man who finds himself with a kitsune and all the trouble that brings.

He also wrote several long series about a wolf and a fox on a space ship. I only read the first story Far From Home (http://www.blkbox.com/~osprey/FarfromHomept1.txt" rel="nofollow ugc noreferrer noopener">Part 1, http://www.blkbox.com/~osprey/FarfromHomept2.txt" rel="nofollow ugc noreferrer noopener">Part 2, http://www.blkbox.com/~osprey/FarfromHomept3.txt" rel="nofollow ugc noreferrer noopener">Part 3, and http://www.blkbox.com/~osprey/FarfromHomept4.txt" rel="nofollow ugc noreferrer noopener">Part 4 - each part is short, it's just for some reason broken into 4 sections). This story stands so strong in my memory because of the climactic scene of this story. Only now did I find out that there were further stories by this pair, and I'm tempted to go read them.

Todd G Sutherland

Sutherland wrote hot things. Two of his stories stick out very strongly in my mind. The first is A Nudge in the Right D'Rection, where a guy is seduced by his boss's wife at the company picnic.

The other is one of the stories in the Scout series. The first is Marked (which I simply could not find), http://velar.ctrl-c.liu.se/vcl/Auth.....nd/drives.txt" rel="nofollow ugc noreferrer noopener">Drives, http://velar.ctrlc.liu.se/vcl/Autho.....land/heat.txt" rel="nofollow ugc noreferrer noopener">Heat, and http://www.yiff.nu/Bi/hardsell.txt" rel="nofollow ugc noreferrer noopener">The Hard Sell. I only read Drives and The Hard Sell, and didn't realize they were actually connected until many years later, but I do remember just how hot Drives was. This chauffer is forced to watch his boss/sugarmomma have lots of illicit sex while he's stuck in the limo - until a hot reporter shows up.

But that doesn't hold a candle to...

Will Sandborn

In my mind, Sandborn was the king of furry erotica back in the day. He put out stuff that I still hold tight to my chest.
http://northshore.shore.net/~was1/S...../HEAVENLY.htm" rel="nofollow ugc noreferrer noopener">Heavenly Bodies - a man is abducted by sexy alien wolves. Or is he?
http://users.primushost.com/~was1/S...../DRGNLAIR.htm" rel="nofollow ugc noreferrer noopener">In the Dragon's Lair where a farm boy is roped into delving into a cave, only to discover it's the lair of an anthropomorphic dragon. She collars him and makes him her sex slave.
http://users.primushost.com/~was1/S...../GAMEHUNT.htm" rel="nofollow ugc noreferrer noopener">A Game of the Hunt I always regarded as very unrealistic porn-fantasy; a vixen loses all her money in the casino, but a very rich man shows up and makes her an indecent offer.
http://www1.shore.net/~was1/Stories/NGHTSWIM.htm" rel="nofollow ugc noreferrer noopener">Night Swimming involves two previous lovers who reunite one night to remember one another.

Sandborn also wrote a series called Journey, where a human was transported into a world with anthro cats and lizards. I never actually read the whole Journey series, only stumbling across the sexy "behind the scenes" parts.

And that's it. There were other stories I remember, like Weekend at Kelly's (which I could not find online, period), but either I couldn't find them or they just weren't worth bringing up here.

I didn't realize just how many of these stories were Human/Furry until I put this post together. Into the Dragon's Lair, Heavenly Bodies, Outfoxed, Tender Loving Care, My Tutor Has 6 Tails, Eye of Aphisis, A Game of the Hunt - all human male/female furry stories.

Also I have posted a list of these links over on the Submission side so that, in case you want to save these, you can Favorite them.