"Out of the Light" in Strange Legacy: Creature Features

Well, I thought that I'd caught up with posting my anthology appearances from recent months, but I just found another one, this time from a late 2025 publication. 

Strange Legacy 2025:Creature Feature contained stories each featuring, you guessed it, a fantastic creature, either from legend or from the author's imagination.

My contribution to the antho was the urban fantasy tale, "Out of the Light," which first appeared in Dark Wisdom Magazine in 2007. My creature is a shapeshifter, but a very different one from any you've ever encountered in other stories.

Every society around the world has shapeshifter legends. The kallikantzari of Greece. The loup-garou of France. The kitsune of Japan. But in those legends, all of those creatures inhabit the forests, the wilderness, the jungles, where they can blend with the animals of their wild habitat.

The idea for my story came from wondering what kind of shapeshifter might be able to exist and hide in a large city, an urban wilderness, so to speak.

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