Kong Xiong -- Playboy's Bunny

   I think you meant this metamorphosis story to be mostly humorous
   and there are definitely some very funny aspects.  The idea of
   a "playboy" turning into an actual bunny (the symbol of the Playboy 
   magazine and the publisher Hugh Hefner's mansion) is genuinely
   funny.  I'm not as sure that you meant the ending to be humorous, but
   I have to admit I laughed out loud when I read it because the sentence
   "he stopped sleeping with many women and became an environmentalist"
   makes such a weird, deadpan contrast. (What does being an environmentalist
   have to with anything in the story before?  Can't environmentalists 
   also be casual womanizers?)  I am actually not sure you even
   need the second transformation, which comes across as a slightly
   artificial change of heart and redemption.  Why not just leave Leo as a 
   bunny rabbit?  That makes a better and more pointed story, I think.

   But the main issue with your story, I think, is that I don't see 
   why Venus would have the motive to make the transformation
   you describe.  Part of this might be that you are somewhat
   misinterpreting the role of Venus in Roman mythology. She was the 
   goddess of female beauty, attraction, sex, fertility, prosperity etc.  
   In most ways, she was the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess 
   Aphrodite and, like Aphrodite, she was the patron goddess of sexual 
   desire and not the patron goddess of the marriage relationship between 
   a man and a woman (that was mostly a legal and property-based institution
   governed by Juno/Hera).  So from that point of view, it's not exactly 
   clear why Venus would be upset with Leo for sleeping with lots of women and
   hanging out at the Playboy mansion.  That's just the sort of thing
   that would celebrate her power over men and appeal to her(!)  If 
   you made Juno the agent of the transformation, or introduced a conflict
   between Juno and Venus over Leo's behavior, that would be closer
   to the way the Romans would have thought of the roles of the
   two goddesses.  

   Content:  B+

   Mechanics:  A-