Found 6 works tagged 'shapeshifting'.
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Published Mar 22, 2020 · 4,933 words (18 minutes)
Fantasy urban fantasy shapeshifting Shape-shifter Heroka
Lilith Hoyl is a Heroka of the bird totem—a shapeshifter who hates the humans who killed her mate and hunt her kind. But when she meets a young girl awaiting a critical operation, their mutual love for birds brings joy back into both their lives. "One expects magic with this set-up, and magic does, indeed, follow, but pain cannot be forever vanquished… The story charms as well as pains. … Smith avoids all the pitfalls and gives us something bittersweet instead." —Fantasy Literature
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Published Mar 22, 2020 · 4,233 words (16 minutes) · 1 view
Fantasy urban fantasy shapeshifting Shape-shifter Heroka
AURORA AWARD FINALIST — Lilith Hoyl awakes to find herself a prisoner in a top-secret government laboratory. To win her freedom, all she needs to do is prove that she’s human. “A very interesting turn-around story, in which our expectations are upended at the last minute. ...a good read, and sadly, far too relevant to our own present world.” —The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf
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Published Mar 21, 2020 · 6,883 words (26 minutes)
Fantasy urban fantasy shapeshifting Shape-shifter Heroka
AURORA AWARD WINNER — Prequel to THE WOLF AT THE END OF THE WORLD — The Heroka, an ancient race of shapeshifters, draw their vitality from their totem animals. Gwyn Blaidd, a Heroka of the wolf totem, has lived as a recluse since a deadly battle with the Tainchel, the covert agency that hunts the Heroka, cost him the woman he loved. But when an old friend sets out to kill a powerful logging baron, Gwyn must again face the Tainchel—and his own dark past.
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Published Oct 21, 2019 · 969 words (4 minutes) · 1 like · 774 views
Fantasy mythology shapeshifting odysseus Greece Kirke
A girl on a beach, looking for the word that sets her free.
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Published Apr 4, 2019 · 1,109 words (5 minutes) · 3 likes · 1037 views
Horror Science Fiction espionage nonbinary lgbtq+ transgender near future shapeshifting
When a government agency develops a shape-shifter program and requires participants to play roles across genders and sexes, the participants discover both enlightening and deeply unsettling things about themselves and the program's agenda. (This story is ownvoices. And raw. There is a content warning for dysphoria and transphobia. There are also moments of self-discovery. It has my full heart.)
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Published Mar 11, 2019 · 3,991 words (15 minutes) · 502 views
Fantasy Literary Fiction post-apocalypse River shapeshifting transformation journey
An older woman seeks transformation in order to help her people. But can she successfully complete her pilgrimage and join with the River? Originally published in Alma Alexander's anthology RIVER.