189C: Story about a woman turned into a mountain lion by a fairy

This is actually a short story, from a collection of fantasy/SF stories probably published in the early-mid 1980s, possibly a little later.

It’s about a woman who rescues a fairy from her cat. The fairy casts a spell that, at the next full moon, turns her into a mountain lion. She escapes from her house, leaving blood on the shredded sheets, into the country, where she learns to hunt for food and encounters a male mountain lion (and a zookeeper) at a zoo. Meanwhile, stories of her disappearance center around an animal attack. After another cycle of the moon, she turns back into a woman.

2 thoughts on “189C: Story about a woman turned into a mountain lion by a fairy

  1. Sabine Tack

    Yes , I read that Story.
    It is in the Anthology fom Marion Zimmer Bradley called Greyhaven,
    the Story is called: Cat Tale, and is by Vicky Ann Heydron

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