MemeMachineGo!

When I first read Nancy Kress' Spillage, I was struck by the unusual premise -- it's told from the point of view of a rat transformed into one of Cinderella's coachmen.

Recently, I found that there's a novel called The Coachman Rat (first published in '89; Kress' story first appeared in '88; it seems like the odds of influence either way are low.) And a children's book called Cinderella's Rat And another children's book called If the Shoe Fits: Voices from Cinderella at least touches on the rat's story.

That rat gets around.