Hopeful Monsters
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A woman faces a terrible disease... and the monster within.
A short story by award-winning author Jeffe Kennedy.
Jeffe Kennedy
Jeffe Kennedy is an award-winning, best-selling author who writes fantasy with romantic elements and fantasy romance. She is an RWA member and serves on the Board of Directors for SFWA as a Director at Large. She is a hybrid author who also self-publishes a romantic fantasy series, Sorcerous Moons. Books in her popular, long-running series, The Twelve Kingdoms and The Uncharted Realms, have won the RT Reviewers’ Choice Best Fantasy Romance and RWA’s prestigious RITA® Award, while more have been finalists for those awards. She's the author of the romantic fantasy trilogy The Forgotten Empires, which includes The Orchid Throne, The Fiery Crown, and The Promised Queen. Jeffe lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with two Maine coon cats, plentiful free-range lizards and a very handsome Doctor of Oriental Medicine. She can be found online at her website, every Sunday at the SFF Seven blog, on Facebook, on Goodreads and on Twitter.
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Hopeful Monsters - Jeffe Kennedy
Hopeful Monsters
Hopeful monsters aren’t any old odd change, but large scale modifications along established pathways of ordinary sexual and embryological development.
—Stephen Jay Gould, The Flamingo’s Smile
The bear dreamt of a woman caged. The woman undulated against her prison, brushing the slick walls. She seemed not to see the trap, but threads of her still reached out, testing the surfaces of it, feeling for any opening. Then the bear looked not at the woman, but through the woman’s eyes. She felt the smallness of their face, their unprotected flesh naked to the air, vulnerable. Their back curved weakly inward, no broad spine of defense against the sky. No claws.
It wasn’t the sort of trap that pinned the leg. The bear rode along, an unwilling passenger, as the woman raced through her world of edges. Hardness slapped against her feet, encased in animal skin like hardened mud. Mats of fur not her own bound her. Her ears chimed with wild sounds like hornets and flocks of insane birds. The air pulled into her lungs was poison smoke. A thousand shapes crowded