As Gurtie awoke from uneasy dreams, she found herself
transformed into a rather large rabbit. Uncomfortably positioned on her curved
spine she parted her eyelids. The sight of paws startled her. Immediately she
twisted and kicked, kicked and twisted, winding herself under the now
undersized duvet and hiding her soft white belly from view. With her head
covered, Gurtie felt much better. Despite her nose twitching and her heart
pumping like a motor, the experience was not wholly unpleasant.
Well look at this, she thought, This is something new.
Gurtie had been wanting a change for a sometime, and while she might have only
been thinking of getting a few new blouses, this change might work as well.
Won’t everyone be surprised when she showed up to work like this. She wondered
if there might be more difficulty in filing or answering the phones or typing
at a computer, but she was certain they would have to make accommodations.
There was a new girl in a wheelchair who had been quite a modern set up. Even
Janet received an adjustable desk, when her doctor said she shouldn’t be
sitting for so many hours at a time.
Perhaps it would be acceptable to poke her head from out of
the covers. It wouldn’t be quite right to say that Gurtie felt confident in a
way that she hadn’t since her first year of college, but more like she felt at
home. Peeking out into her room she saw the clock read a few minutes past
seven. She had forgotten to set her alarm again, but had luckily awoken with
enough time to get to work. Maybe she would even walk today.
Her nose and whiskers itched and Gurtie found the back of
her paw a satisfying remedy. The way her tucked arms rubbed over her face, felt
right in an evolutionary way. She found that if she licked her paw she could
clean her long furry ear. Catching sight of herself in the full length mirror
on the back of her door, she let out an audible sigh of cuteness – Awww. Just
then she heard a small knock on the door and ducked back under the duvet. A
familiar voice said, “I’m going to hop in the shower if that’s okay.” Her
roommate Wendy was always so considerate. Gurtie was surprised by her voice
saying Surrre. That one word purred with the beat of her heart. Wendy’s
footsteps went down the hall and Gurtie realized all the things she could hear.
