Literature

Though Jessie’s belief in me helped, I still had doubts about my sanity. Maybe I always would. But until I was sitting in the corner talking to myself again, I…

“Don’t,” I said.I tried to get up, but Damien held on. He was taller than me and a whole lot stronger. Besides, it was hard to fight someone while buck…

I waited for Will to argue, but he didn’t.”The fewer werewolves for the Weendigo to kill and eat,” he said, “the less power he accumulates.” “And if he doesn’t have…

We remained quiet all the way home. I don’t know what she was thinking, but my thoughts were full of what would happen if one of us got furry.Would I…

“Let’s go out and blast some werewolves,” I said. “We’ll both feel better.””I don’t think so.” “Really. You will. I promise.” I knew / would. It was probably a mistake….

I went into the bathroom, splashed my face with water, and brushed my teeth. My mouth tasted like something had died in there. My back was on fire.I turned, twisting…

His face went hard and still; his eyes darkened to the shade of evergreen smoke. “Jesus Christ, Leigh, what the hell is that?””Nothing.” “Nothing?” He stood and took a few…

Damien went still. “This is a bad idea, Leigh.”I went on tiptoe, brushed my lips back and forth across his chin, then reached up and licked his bottom lip. “Fuck…

That there were no missing persons reports continued to bother me. Were the werewolves only killing transients? I had a hard time accepting that.In wolf form, werewolves were hunters, like…

Before she could dial, the door crashed open. Jessie and I pointed our weapons toward the sound.Will stopped dead. “I have to go.” Jessie waved her .44 toward the sign…

The middle of the night in Crow Valley, Wisconsin, Jessie wasn’t hard to find. My car and hers were the only ones trolling Main Street.I stopped mine in the middle…

I was supposed to go into the bar and talk to the locals. I couldn’t do it.I couldn’t sit on a stool and pretend I didn’t want to take Damien…

I was headed toward the front of the bar when I caught a hint of cigarette smoke. Not too strange, especially around here, but the scent was hot, acrid -…

Well, maybe not exactly a werewolf. The drawing appeared both human and lupine and very, very thin. I suppose that was what happened when the great mystery cursed you to…

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Will stared at the weapon and laughed. “Hey, Jess, friend of yours?”What was it with the people in this town? Didn’t anyone flinch at the sight of a gun anymore?…

“What did you do?” Jessie whispered.The clearing was awash with blood. There were body parts all over the place. The very air was still, not a twitter from the birds….

Someone was banging on the door and shouting my name. I glanced at my travel alarm.Noon. I’d overslept. I dragged myself out of bed, across the floor, glanced out the…

The screaming woke me up. I was on my feet, rifle in one hand, the other on the door, when I realized the sound had stopped.I listened, straining my ears,…

I stood beneath the flare of the electric lights, horrified at what I’d nearly done. There was a reason I wasn’t supposed to kill them unless I saw them change,…