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- Categories:Animal, Short Story
- Title "'You're Not Listening!'", In "The Temple of Luna", (C) 1999,
Adult Content, Magic, Shapeshifter, Comedy, Fantasy
Description
This contains a MAJOR 'spoiler'. A pair of young lovers, sexually
passionate but otherwise totally unsuited to one another, return
from separate summer vacations with stunning secrets each gained
knowledge of while on the Continent. The lady has found a ruined
temple on one of the Greek islands wherein she uncovered the
mysteries of Circe's magic, and before her rather chauvinistic beau
can disclose his discovery, she turns him into a small pig, 'to
teach him a lesson in humility'. The unfortunate pig retains his
human mind and does everything within his power to please his
delighted mistress, yet she continues to push off the date of his
supposed re-transformation into the human. He attempts to warn her
of some upcoming danger but is completely unable to speak now and
thus is summarily ignored. Finally, while the pig is being
viciously 'disciplined' for one more night, the full moon rises,
and he becomes a slavering man-monster who swiftly reduces the 'new
Circe' to a collection of bloody organs. You see, the young man had
been bitten by a werewolf during his vacation. With no possibility
of returning to his true form left to him, the pig with the man's
mind retreats into the forest to live out his highly unusual
existence and slaughter a few farm animals every month or so.
Literate and bitingly comic. Ms. Watters takes unerring aim at the
conceits of both male and female while always remaining
entertaining. DSF. 'Dale Watters' is a pseudonym for a teenaged
girl.
originally posted by Duncan Scott FitzHugh on 2000-05-31, no edits, entryid=5402
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