The story concerns the life of Kory, a teenage otter in his first gay relationship, with a black fox named Samaki. The novel contains Kyell's popular stories from Yiffstar, Aquifers and Streams, as well as a previously-unpublished third section, Oceans.
It won the 2008 Ursa Major Award for Best Novel. Waterways is an anthropomorphic novel by Kyell Gold, published by Sofawolf Press and first released at Further Confusion 2008.