 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.