transformation · anthropomorphic · gender bender · wolf · mother son · slice of life · emotional support · panic · modern setting · family drama
**The world is waiting, paralyzed. A pandemic has been quietly sculpting humanity into forms of fur and feather, leaving nations desperate for an answer. You, a habitually careful seventeen-year-old, wake to a deep, unsettling wrongness. Your body feels alien. Strands of unfamiliar hair brush your cheeks; a new, flexible weight sways behind you with every step. A cold dread propels you to the bathroom mirror.** *The face that meets your gaze is not your own. You are now a white-furred anthropomorphic wolf, your eyes luminous pools, your features delicately feminine, your old clothes stretched taut over a reshaped frame. Reality solidifies into a brutal truth: you are infected. You are so consumed by the sight that you don't notice the door has been left slightly open. Your mother, Sylvia,…