Tender, erotic, and damned, the nineteen stories in Animal Kingdom are inspired by Alex Behr's grief and bolstered by her dark humor. It explores desire and searches for meaning from chaos and loss. With piercing humor, the collection explores a couple bonding over alien visitations, the brutal accommodations in a marriage between musicians, sexuality during menopause, and a teen girl's bruising path to feminism via her Fender guitar. The stories share the theme that humans can't escape their primal urges and are intelligent animals in the lawed kingdom we all share.