We've all heard the admonition "be careful what you wish for," but when confronted with "artwork" that can be whatever the audience imagines her to be, the gulf between desire and expectation can be a most dangerous one. While I'm not sure there's enough sex or violence in here to warrant a warning, this is nonetheless intense. (N.B.: The inspiration for this story came from play with a 'toon' character, Missy Vixen, on Tapestries and FurryMUCK, although the vixen in this story is quite different from Missy.)

What if one day in the not-so-distant future, the world suddenly contained animals, doing normal animal things, who just happened to be a couple orders of magnitude larger? This piece flirts with magic realism and even a little social philosophy.

A dark future hard sf novelette, a political thriller and, oh yes, a story with a giant ringtail girl. I've joked that it started out as Attack of the Fifty-Foot Woman and somehow became Blade Runner along the way, but in seriousness, this is one I'm particularly proud of.