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Wildcat

Author: David Bowles

Published by: Apex Magazine

Publication Date: May 2015

Description, from Lois Tilton [Locus]: "At the beginning of the 20th century in the American Southwest, the eponymous narrator is a woman outside the prevailing norms, being feminist, divorced, and a practitioner of witchcraft [a gringa santera]. When her farmhands shoot a wild jaguarundi shapeshifter, concern is raised over her kits, who will grow up fully neither human nor cat without intervention. [....] She succeeds in transforming the two female kits, but the sole male is a harder case..."

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