(With apologies to George Orwell…)

Last Updated: 2024-01-26

In a weird fit of inspiration, I am creating an anthology that is not furry-based, and you get to be part of it! This story consists entirely of human characters.

Status: Gathering Interest

I have not started this anthology, yet, but if this is something you would be interested in participating in, please Contact me. Given the subject matter (particularly the life of a pig), I doubt I can get this published on Amazon, so I will be relying on reader interest to fund this project. If enough people express interest, I will start formalizing the project and coming up with an outline.

Premise

Hidden Ranch Collection Center prides itself on providing only the best-quality semen for ranch dressing. (If this sounds familiar to It’s Not Mayonnaise, Buttermilk, and Spices…, that’s because I am totally ripping myself off on it, though the two are not meant to be related.)

Personnel

The Center (as it is often called, along with HRCC, or—as haughty detractors put it—”Animal Farm”) has a fairly large, all-male staff, organized into the following hierarchy:

• Owner, who owns the place and acts as head honcho;
• Cowboys, who work with the livestock and handle the activities the livestock can’t perform, such as cooking and cleaning;
• Livestock, consisting of humans subjugated into animal roles, with their own sub-hierarchy:
  • Bulls at the top, whose semen is the exportable product of the Center;
  • Workhorses/ponies, whose labor forms the backbone of the organization; and
  • Pigs, demoted ponies enduring their sentences for bad behavior.

Occasional visits from non-personnel could include vets/doctors, suppliers, lookie-loos, and execs from The Center’s primary customer, Veiled Ravine Dressings and Condiments, LTD.

Setting

The Center is set in the verdant hills of a river valley about half an hour from the nearest town—close enough to resupply but far enough to keep nosy lookie-loos away. It consists of the following areas:

Barn

The main building is the barn, a stereotypical red building with white trim, kept looking immaculate by the staff. It is the home and milking area for the bulls.

Bunkhouse

The bunkhouse is where the cowboys live and eat. It consists of a bunk room, mess hall, and showering facilities. There is no toilet in the bunkhouse; all cowboys use the outhouse.

Farmhouse

The farmhouse is where the owner lives, though being hands-on, the owner spends very little time there.

Stable

The stable is where the horses sleep and eat and little else. When they are not sleeping or being fed, the horses spend the majority of their time working around the Center.

Chutes

The chutes act as the livestock entrance to the Center, a way to keep new livestock corralled as they are processed for life on the farm.

Gardens

The gardens are where the horses and cowboys spend most of their time, growing crops to feed everybody as well as mix in with the main ingredient to produce Hidden Ranch Collection Center’s primary product: the most unbelievable ranch dressing you’ve ever tasted.

Despite the quaint name, the gardens actually represent the majority of the Center’s real estate: acres and acres of crops to be plowed, planted, weeded, tended, and harvested year-round.

Outhouse

The outhouse is where the cowboys do their business. Unlike the outhouses of old, it is climate-controlled, but it still consists of several holes in the ground. It is situated directly over the pigpen.

Pigpen

The pigpen is the prison of the pigs, where they live out their sentences chained to a communal trough, unable to move away from their own filth or that which rains down upon them from the outhouse above. It is dark, terribly smelly, and serves as an effective warning to the ponies against misbehaving.

Anthology

Goal

In this anthology, I hope to explore the lives of various staff and livestock as they go about their days, from the owner taking his best cowboys to livestock auctions to the life of the auctioned pony-to-be. Will he be a good pony and rewarded with some time in the bull barn, or will he displease his new owner and be sentenced to hard time in the pigpen?

Structure

The plan is to establish the setting basics through an introductory chapter told from the perspective of a new cowboy. Once that is done, the remaining chapters will each tell the story of an individual on the farm, and in so doing, expand upon the world. The events of the chapters are intended to be self-contained to avoid writing myself into a corner, but the world-building will be cumulative.

I have not yet decided whether there will be an overall arch; it will depend on the chapters and whether it seems like an arch would flow naturally from them.

How to Participate

Those interested can request a chapter by providing me the following details:

• Character name
• Character physical description
• Character bio
• Character personality
• Character role (cowboy, pony, bull, pig, visiting lookie-loo, etc.)
• Desired kinks*

*Kinks will be limited based on the setting. For example, kinks like cock vore or impregnation aren’t compatible with an all-male, human cast set in the real world.

All of the above information is optional, but it gives the commissioner the flexibility to specify as little or as much as desired. Pricing will be negotiated based on the length, complexity, and funness of the chapter.