Well, I tried to keep this short, but I lean toward the verbose.  Good quality in a writer?  Who knows. :)

Hoo boy, where to start?  Well this is my first real attempt at writing, and it’s been a very interesting and rewarding experience.  I hope you all like the results. 

About the story and it’s origins a bit:
First off, credit where credit is due.  While this entire story was written by me, not one letter of it ever would have been put to paper (or computer) if it hadn’t been for Kittiara’s story Trouble’s Tale, which you can find here: http://vcl.ctrl-c.liu.se/vcl/Authors/Kittiara/
If you check it out, and I recommend that you do, just do me a favor and do a ‘replace all’ on the name Tanj for Trouble.  You’ll see why in Kit’s Readme file.
Honeyfur came about from daydreams inspired by Trouble’s Tale, basically sort of a ‘what would I do in this situation’ or more like ‘what would I like to see happen in this situation.’  As a result, I have to admit to some initial similarities between the two stories…  My main character was even an Ocelot (Trouble being a cheetah) at first, heh, but I changed her to something more unique, which is where my story gets its name.  Honeyfur isn’t set in the Trouble universe, but it is a similar setting.  Indeterminately far in the future on a different planet.   I started writing Honeyfur when I was about halfway through reading the first book in Trouble’s Tale, “The Academy Years” and thus, Honeyfur picks up just as the main character, Pandora, is ‘graduating’ from “The Institute” a functionally identical institution to Kittiara’s slaving school, the “Academy.”  I didn’t write about the ordeals that Pandora went through during her year stay at the Institute, as the training is more or less the same as what Trouble went through.  I didn’t think that I could bring anything new to the travails of a character in that situation that Kit hadn’t already touched on.
That’s where the similarities between Honeyfur and Trouble’s Tale end, and in fact there are some very stark differences. Most significantly, Honeyfur is written first person whereas Trouble’s Tale is third person.  The main reason I did that was I wanted to see more introspective on the character, something that Kit never really delves into during Trouble’s Tale.  I wanted to know how Trouble felt when she was up on the auction block, the whole rest of her life about to be decided for her.  Was she pissed off at her situation? Was she scared that her master was going to be a bastard towards her?  As much as I like Kit’s story, it was a source of frustration to never really get in the character’s head as much as I’d like.
So there’s the stories origin.  At the time of my posting this first chapter, I have over 400 pages written, but I’ve been holding off on publishing any of it, as the first chapter sets the tone and the setting for the rest of the story, and I wanted to make sure it was as perfect as I could make it.  That being said I may still make tiny edits here and there, probably nothing major, but this document will serve as a revision history if I do make any significant edits.  I have one or two finished chapters that occur much later in the story, but everything in between is still piecemeal at this point. I will endeavor to get them shaped up and post them on a fairly regular basis, and getting this first chapter out on the web is a step to get me moving in that direction. 
Feedback is always welcome, mail me at Dynotaku@dynotaku.com, and you can join in on discussions of the story at BondoFox’s Forum at http://www.kaisha.cx/forums  (In BondoFox’s Tielines) Feel free to poke around the forums and BondoFox’s site as well, if you’re reading this story then you’ll like the other ones he has posted there as well as the stuff in his galleries. Like my gallery. :)
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06-11-03: Post Chapter 01 on VCL

08-18-03: Post Chapter 02 on VCL