"Waking Chang-Er" by Samantha Ling

An interesting tale involving a Chinese mythological figure, Chang-Er and the Jade Rabbit. The rabbit is fed up with being cooped up in Chang-Er's palace on the moon with no other gods to play with. Then, in a dream, it sees a little girl who is dying but whom the moon goddess may be able to help, if she can be convinced to do so.

• Read from Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2005 issue