"Spots in Oz" is a short story by Rachel Cosgrove Payes, published in Oz-story Magazine No. 3 in 1997. In it, Cosgrove Payes revisits one of her most distinctive characters, the Leopard with the Changeable Spots, introduced in her 1951 book The Hidden Valley of Oz. In the course of the story, the Leopard manifests his spots into exclamation points and question marks, smily faces, balloons, birthday cakes, and exploding fireworks. Payes was not the first Oz author to employ twins as protagonists. Jack Snow, in The Shaggy Man of Oz, and David Hulan, in The Glass Cat of Oz, did the same.