The planet of Centhia has long been ravaged by constant conflict and brutal capitalist exploitation. For Many of the human citizens, domestication is the best future that the affini can give them. An anthology of shorter stories in the HDG setting.

As human worlds fight a losing battle against the affini, one ambitious human will fight with words rather than ships. But are all the struggles for power really worth it or will they find more happiness as a pet? A human domestication story

A life lost. A life regained. For one young woman, tragedy could possibly lead to her best life. If she’s willing to take it.

A recounting of a personal scene.

A Human Domestication Guide Story. “Xenia: Linden’s Luxury Stellar Vacation Destination!” Not so luxurious for Gale Rossings, a Linden employee struggling to protect worker health and safety. Honestly, she’d sooner expect an alien invasion than any positive change…

Your girlfriend and you (gender neutral descriptions throughout) are at a dance when you fall prey to some hypnotic visuals and sounds. You’re taken to a backroom and forced to have sex on camera. Please see foreword for content warnings!

A planeswalker comes to terms with her gender and her situation in the midst of the threat of New Phyrexia and compleation.

Suma works hard to feed her addiction. Can she keep it a secret at work?

Affini liberation is under way. A poor girl huddles into the corner of a bleak building, fearing the worst of the so-called monsters that had come to claim their lives. The girl is a survivor, dedicated to living through this ordeal. Perhaps the Affini can help.

This story now updates on Archive of Our Own exclusively. https://archiveofourown.org/works/44762863/navigate

A mysterious stranger takes over a cabin of young people during a storm…

I knew you were destined to be a slave the moment I saw you…and I think you knew it too… Your friends were so judgemental…but they were slaves at heart too…

Part 2 in the Sleepy Smiles Files. An unwitting victim finds herself at the mercy of Dr. Malphren and her staff at Sleepy Smiles Special Hospital, and is given a full tour. Chapter-specific content warnings to follow. Chapters: 6/? (WIP)

Val, a butch lesbian, has some issues with her new boss - especially when Ms. Safra, an accomplished hypnotist, insists that a more feminine role might suit her better…

Two Apprentices enter…One Magus leaves. But for the other, the familiar, who’s to say that their life is over? One finds out that it’s just the beginning.

(A short in the Human Domestication Guide world) A rebel finds herself in a dead end. She wants to resist the affini, but how can she do that if she can’t even resist her own changing thoughts?

This story is no longer being updated here and will be continued on AO3 https://archiveofourown.org/works/44767537/chapters/112635649. Thank you for reading!

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 poor little sophont realizes that independence is not all that life is about. She also realizes the meaning of truly belonging somewhere.

In 1972 the world changed forever, all the while a poor boy struggled to find his way home. An HDG72 story.