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His feet were moving before his brain had fully processed everything, and he was throwing himself down beside the backliner. There was nothing that could knock Jean down hard enough that he would not get back up again. He would only stay down if he couldn’t get back up.
Jean was pale, his pained breaths shallow.
“Show me what hurts,” Jeremy spoke as calmly as he could, but something wasn’t right. An eerie feeling hummed across his skin. He threw off his gloves and his helmet.
“I can’t, I can’t,” Jean was gasping over and over. His eyes were wide beneath the bars of his mask, gaze flickering back and forth up and down in a frantic pattern.
“What? You can’t what?” Jeremy’s hands hovered just above him, looking for the wound, the blood to staunch, something, anything he could do to help. He thought about stripping Jean of his gear, but thought better of it, not knowing where or what the injury was. A slow stream of blood poured from his nose. What was wrong? Why wouldn’t Jean just show him what was wrong? “What hurts?”
Jean’s eyes locked with Jeremy’s, grey and wide and terrified.
“I can’t feel anything.” It sounded like he was choking.
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Set in a stylized version of early 1900s London, where every human bears the head of a rabbit, Appetite is a psychological horror short story I have created that follows the unsettling, homoerotic relationship between two men: Jack Carnaby, a feral snowshoe hare with a taste for flesh, and Edwin Lapin, a refined, domesticated European rabbit who prides himself on civility, composure, and control.
Their world is one where hunger—social, emotional, and literal—lurks beneath every word. Jack represents the wilderness of want, a predator hiding behind a smile. Edwin, ever the gentleman, tells himself he’s above such things. But week after week, he returns to Jack’s side. To listen. To learn. To feel something primal stir under the lace of his gloves.
As disappearances haunt the city and polite society turns a blind eye, Edwin is drawn deeper into Jack’s orbit. An orbit of love, but also of reflection. Because behind Jack’s teeth, Edwin sees something familiar: a mirror he’s too afraid to shatter.
Appetite is a grotesque and metaphorical descent into obsession, shame, and the violence we dress in velvet.
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19 Nov 2025