Wildcat (from the Secret Diary of Donna Hooks)

Wildcat
Author: David Bowles
Published by: Apex Magazine
Publication Date: May 2015
Description, from Lois Tilton [Locus]: "At the beginning of the 20th century in the American Southwest, the eponymous narrator is a woman outside the prevailing norms, being feminist, divorced, and a practitioner of witchcraft [a gringa santera]. When her farmhands shoot a wild jaguarundi shapeshifter, concern is raised over her kits, who will grow up fully neither human nor cat without intervention. [....] She succeeds in transforming the two female kits, but the sole male is a harder case..."
Category:Best Short Story