From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!hao!seismo!rocheste!bukys
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.games.trivia
Title: safety pins, coat hangers, and bicycles
Article-I.D.: rocheste.1400
Posted: Sat Apr 30 11:10:53 1983
Received: Mon May  2 04:39:53 1983

Found: the title of the short story about the creatures which
begin life as safety pins, metamorphise into coat hangers, and
become mature as bicycles.

	"Or All the Seas With Oysters"
	by Avram Davidson

	copyright (c) 1957
	by Galaxy Publishing Corp.
	First published in .I Galaxy

	in .I Avram Davidson Collected Fantasies
	edited by John Silbersack
	Berkley edition/June 1982
	ISBN 0-425-05081-5

The "other works by this author" page lists a book with the same
title as the short story, so it is probably in that collection too.