A recent conversation with former neighbors revealed that we have fewer…. fuzzy visitors showing up at home in CO since we moved.
This started me thinking.
So, our former house backed to undeveloped land, and was notorious for wild animal encounters. Like… a mountain lion casually crossed the street in front of the house, stopping to wash himself right in the middle. (To be fair, we lived in a cul-de-sac so not much traffic, but still!)
Coyotes sounded like partying teens outside my kitchen.
Eagles did routine flybyes of my office window. (Was a third floor window on a ridge, to be fair.) And wild turkeys walked over the garage roof (I swear) to look in our bedroom window.
One of the most notorious incidents, though, was when the neighbor sent me a picture of a bear, standing in front of our door. Like he’d just rung the doorbell and was a little annoyed we hadn’t answered.
This started to make me think…..
Look, I write the shifter series, where people shift to all sorts of animals. I mean, I write other series, but even my fans who read the other series are fond of having “animal identifies.” All in good fun, right? I mean, shifters don’t exist, right?
Or do they?
What if all that activity was fans dropping by to visit, and forgetting they were in their animal form?
Maybe that bear was super-disappointed I wasn’t there to sign that copy of Noah’s Boy tucked under his arm? Maybe the teen coyotes were some college fans who said “Hey, let’s go look in on Sarah Hoyt. Maybe she’ll give us port!”
And we’re not going to ask which of you maniacs was the turkey looking in our bedroom window. Privacy, people!
I always say I have the best fans in the world, and I love them all, but I do have a request: Don’t come as you are. Shift to your human form before ringing the doorbell. We’ll give you a robe to put on or something. I mean, a local fox shifter routinely stops by for coffee, but he does it in his human form!
Fans are mostly friends, and friends are welcome.
But don’t be fuzzy when you ring the doorbell! It scares the cats.
Don't Come As You ARE!
Sarah, I'm sure you have several candidates for turkey shifter.....
My favorite choral group are my Twilight Coyotes <3