Published seasonally in print and online, this collection explores a spectrum of relationships between human animals and their Familiars - non-human living things and others we've ever for a moment needed. This series provides a balance to the forms articulating these encounters in aural and visual art and literature. Qualitative depictions of others' lived or imagined experiences help extend our gaze back and forward in time and beyond parochial subjectivity into new or hybrid {king}doms of communication, ethics, consciousness, identity, symbiosis and evolution. Readers are thus prompted to focus unsentimentally on their interdependence and toward the multitude of ways humans might choose to choreograph their lives within an ecosystem of practical, emotional and sometimes even sexually entangled companionship and predation. Expect Familiars to inspire readers to think about dog toys and office ferns on the weekends, UFO visitations, bejeweled troll dolls and apartment renovations in new and more expansive ways.