Terrified and on the run, Clarence Lowe flees his privileged life for Konalepti Spaceport. Rather than a clean getaway, he finds himself naked, abandoned, and friendless in Anthro-Town, the city’s destitute underground, among its population of inscrutable and suspicious animal-men. But rather than a wretched slum filled with desperate, struggling creatures, he finds a thriving and distinct culture built upon the rubble and refuse of his own. Clarence struggles to adapt to this new society, while staying one step ahead of his past.

This story runs as a three-parter, and had an interesting twist in its writing. In the middle of writing it, I went off to do something else for a while, and when I got back to it, I realized I couldn’t remember the ending I’d had in mind. This tasked me with basically having to solve a mystery I’d written. I don’t think there was ever a moment when the light dawned and I thought, “Ah, yes, that’s what I was going to write.” So I ended up writing the ending I was most likely to write.