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It could be disconcerting having a roommate who changed gender state a dozen times in the time it took him/her to walk home from his/her office, and of course the subtle other changes that went along with attraction to a particular phenotype meant he never really looked the same from day to day, or even--on particularly high-hormone days--hour to hour. Sie didn't mind. As far as sie talked about hir condition, sie said it was just fun, and that sie enjoyed feeling the surges and changes in hir body in response to other people sie found attractive. Some people might hate it and hide in their apartment, working remotely and refusing to watch television for fear that it might trigger a change, but not sie. A good movie marathon could have a different person sitting on the couch each time the lights came up for break, and that was the way sie liked it--

Inspiration: "Fidelity" - Regina Spektor -> Googling "loved nobody fully" -> "Common Myths of Bisexuality"
Story potential: Medium
Notes: I like the idea of physiological changes in response to attraction and what that would mean to somebody who was attracted to *lots* of people, but it's a one-trick pony story and I don't think it's saying anything particularly new and interesting. Also, pronouns.

"Can you make me feel like a star?" the blackbird girl asked, cocking her head at him in a fashion that held echoes of her birdlike form. Black wings spread from the edges of her eyes, but her hair was pale and her skin fair. He nodded. "Yes, I can make you a star," he said levelly. It was true. He could, but only if she was willing to do things that most girls wouldn't. He told her that, too, but she only blinked her eyes slowly at him, like a bird staring at a worm. He was a worm. He'd known that years ago. It was part of his nature. Other men felt that he--

Inspiration: "Scream" by Starkillers, and this photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewfphoto/3318204783/
Story Potential: Medium? High?
Notes: Feels unsavory, so I kind of don't want to write it. On the other hand, I get the feeling that this particular guy decides not to, she goes elsewhere, and he somehow ends up cleaning up the mess. Very noir.

It was the one year in seven, the year when she and her sisters would go out into the world, find mortal men, and lay with them to get daughters. Six years in seven, they stayed in the swamp, among those of their own kind and the simpler ones, where they got sons and daughters that might or might not have the same talents as they. The sisters who were born of man usually had get that bred true, but those born of the swamp wept marshy tears as nine of ten of their get were born mute and changeless. She felt the skin along her back cracking open, like a snail pecked by a bird. Beside her, one of her sisters croaked in fear--

Inspiration: Well, it is leap year. And woot.com had a shirt design called Lady Out of Water (http://shirt.woot.com/Derby/Entry.aspx?id=10366)
Story Potential: Medium.
Notes: Lots about shape changing ladies, and lots about frog princes, but not so much about the distaff side of that family.

The later findings were confusing to the main decision, and so they were suppressed, until a good sixteen years later, when the question became an issue again, as the child reached its majority. The confusion had been suppressed, but unfortunately it was found that this did not actually change the main effect. The child itself had not been confused; but its nature was just as confusing, though some had hoped initially that the outcome would not be so confused if the child itself was not confused of its nature. All hopes of this died the morning that the child, then fifteen, woke up and thought to itself, i would like to be a large bird. It only took a minute, and a large bird was flapping its way through the habitat, careening into things and generally being a nuisance and a spreader of panic. The judges were confounded. They had assumed that bey removing the knowledge of the variability, the child would not seek to exploit it. They had never considered that the child--

Inspiration: A passing fragment of conversation.
Story Potential: Low.
Notes: Meh. Mutation or some sort of shape-changing, treated in a similar way as gender-ambiguous children.

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