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PodCastle Miniature 84: The Fox Bride
* Author : Mari Ness
* Narrator : Rish Outfield
* Audio Producer : Peter Wood
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First appeared in Daily Science Fiction in March of 2015.
Rated PG-13
The Fox Bride
by Mari Ness
He carried the squirming animal to his – no, their, he had to remember that now, their – bedroom, struggling to avoid her sharp teeth. The oversized ring he had given her glimmered on her left front leg; she had spent most of the evening biting and licking at it, when she had not been growling. He had ordered the musicians to play louder, to cover up the noise, but the growls still lingered in his ears.
When he reached the room, he secured her chain to one end of the bed, and sat gingerly at the other end. The waxing moonlight flooded the bed, giving a silver sheen to her red and snowy fur.
“When you are a woman, I can remove the chain,” he told the fox.
The fox barked.
“I swear it,” he said.
A snarl.