text:  Our first piece is by writer Naomi Kritzer. She's a sci-fi and fantasy author whose titles include Fires of the Faithful and the YA novel Catfishing on the Catnet. We read her delightful Hugo Award winning short story Cat Pictures Please on an earlier episode of Selected Shorts. Today's fanciful piece finds its uncharted territory in a suburban backyard. It's exciting in the way that planting seeds always is because it's all about what might or might not happen.