This volume of ROAR explores the idea of community from every angle and with all kinds of animals. You'll find darkness inside, but you'll also find hope, help, and connections to brighten the night. These sixteen stories, from long time furry authors and rising stars, are your invitation.So step inside and go on an adventure with an exiled fox and his friends in the rain forest. Take a hike with a fisher. Learn magic with a dragon. Attend a family reunion full of gregarious cows. Face a mystery among meerkats. Celebrate Colony Day on Mars.You're invited to it all!Contents:Bourbon Jack by Linnea CappsSquonk and the Horde of Apprentices by Pete Butler-DavisThe Widehorn Herd by Madison KellerOutsiders by Kyell GoldNo Choice About It by MikasiWolfThe Hero of Brambleward by Frances PauliOnce We Were Meerkats by HuskyteerYear Forty-Four by Lloyd YaegerFolding in the Wolf by Bill KiefferThoughts and Prayers by Thurston HowlSchism by AnhedralA Scrappy Start by Cathy SmithThe 180-Pound Gorilla by Tim SusmanThe Corvid King by Amy Clare FontaineThe Human-English Lexicon: Notes from an Anthro-Xeno-Biologist by A. Humphrey LanhamCuriosity Kills by Blake Hutchins