
Genre:
Speculative Fiction
Themes:
Adventure / Survival
Pet / Wild Animal
Heat Level:
Medium (sex scenes are included and may use mildly graphic description)
Archetypes:
STEM Profession / Scientist
Geographic Location:
United States: Midwest
Setting:
Academic / School / University
Wilderness / Outback
Feed Them Silence
By Lee Mandelo
What does it mean to "be-in-kind" with a nonhuman animal?
Or in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon’s case, to be in-kind with one of the last remaining wild wolves? Using a neurological interface to translate her animal subject’s perception through her own mind, Sean intends to chase both her scientific curiosity and her secret, lifelong desire to experience the intimacy and freedom of wolfishness. To see the world through animal eyes; smell the forest, thick with olfactory messages; even taste the blood and viscera of a fresh kill. And, above all, to feel the belonging of the pack.
Sean’s tireless research gives her a chance to fulfill that dream, but pursuing it has a terrible cost. Her obsession with work endangers her fraying relationship with her wife. Her research methods threaten her mind and body. And the attention of her VC funders could destroy her subject, the beautiful wild wolf whose mental world she’s invading.