Dream Lover by Kristina Wright (ed)

Author:Kristina Wright (ed) [Kristina Wright (ed)]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cleis Press
Published: 2011-04-06T14:00:00+00:00

MOONGIRL MEETS THE WOLF MAN

Alana Noël Voth

Once upon a time, a wolf came out of the dark while she searched an abandoned campground for leftovers and stuck his nose right up her backside. She swung away, tucking her tail, and tried to get around him. The wolf chuffed, mouth open, and absorbed her scent through his tongue. He was erect. She was scared; it was against nature this way since she didn’t want to mate with a wolf. The wolf grabbed her.

She struggled, snarling, trying to get away, and the sound the wolf made was like a chuckle, and so she stared. What was he?

An animal with black fur and dark eyes.

Without hesitation, she twisted away and ran.

She ran into the winter night, cobalt sky and starlight, a twotone moon above her. She ran from the campground toward town. She ran until her sides hurt, until she felt her tongue lagging from her mouth. She was weak from scavenging. She’d been alone too long. Time folded; memories overlapped. Not long ago, although she wasn’t sure when, she’d ducked into a library and read about Eve, the first woman on earth, or maybe it had been Lilith, the Devil’s wife, but who’d been the first one like her? Children’s stories were full of wolves. Myths included shape shifters. Where was her book of Genesis? She couldn’t find anything like that.

The wolf had followed her out of the woods. They’d entered another kind of forest, one of newspaper like animal skins stuck to the concrete and wheels of cars. She heard the wolf chuckle again and stopped. Crouched against a wall, she regarded him. The wolf was sleek and muscled, obviously not hungry like her. He was full. The beast was beautiful. He lowered his head and growled. She ducked around a corner and ran again. He followed. At the door to her motel room she shifted. Fast as she could, she tried the door. It was unlocked: good. Inside the room, she slammed the door then secured the lock. She held still. The woman heard him coming. Her skin reacted. The ripples were like electrical zaps that lifted the hair on her arms then crowded into her stomach.

The woman felt a pelt of fur rising along the bumps of her spine.

Who’s afraid of the big, bad wolf?

She held her human form.

On the other side of the door, the wolf’s claws clicked on the pavement then stopped. She heard him panting and imagined his breath fogging the doorknob. The woman rushed across the room. She was light on her feet, quiet. She dropped to her hands and knees behind the bed. Meanwhile, the wolf sniffed her remains on the sidewalk: fur, teeth and skin. She heard him eating her, chewing her up, cleaning up after her.

The wolf scratched the door.

She held her hand to her mouth and didn’t move. After a while, the woman went to a window across the room. There, near the glass, the air was cold. She shivered. Finally, she opened the curtain.

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