A story from long ago. Now there is FurAffinity and every country has an annual furry con -- and thank goodness for that -- but back then it was just you and a terminal and a mailing list and a couple of websites. It got kind of lonely.

The seed of this was a throwaway line in a collection of short stories about secretive shapeshifters called "The Weird" (or maybe Wyrd, or Weyrd, or something -- good luck Googling it!). It's stated that one character wrote a short story about a world in which everyone is a shapeshifter but nobody admits it. So I figured: hey, I could write that...