Escaping the Mimes

Bad enough that a wish granting, trans-human civilization misinterpreted Felix's wish "to be young again" to mean that he wanted to go back to being a literal child. Even worse is to be chased through the forest by a couple of techno-zombies formed by virtual personas suffering from data corruption and an unhealthy obsession with sharing pies (infected with zombifying nanites, of course...) Good thing that the granting of Felix's wish also came with the creation of a few talking forest pals willing to run interference to help facilitate his escape.

Based on "Singularity Sky" by Charles Stross