Straight Outta Dodge City by David Boop

Author:David Boop [Boop, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, Collections & Anthologies, Erotica, Historical, Action & Adventure
ISBN: 9781982124366
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: 2020-02-04T08:00:00+00:00

Rara Lupus

JULIE FROST

“Ladieees and gentlemeeen! Step right up and see a lady werewolf transform right before your horrified eyes!”

My blower’s job was to get the marks’ attention, and Prentiss was in fine voice standing outside the “Star Attraction” tent. His bright red coat and fancy cane with the gilded skull handle stood in stark contrast to the dusty surroundings, and his waxed mustache and dark eyebrows bristled as he extolled my dubious virtues. He had kind eyes, though most others never got to see that side of him.

I huffed out a sigh and spoke to the doomed sheep tethered beside me inside the wheeled cage. “Do you think he ever gets tired of this? Because I surely do.” Of course, the sheep wouldn’t have time to get tired of it. Usually we used a chicken, but there was a good crowd tonight, and they’d paid the extra two bits to see me, so they got the added thrill of the sheep.

“Not for the faint of heart or delicate of constitution!” he continued as people from the midsized Eastern Utah mining town and its environs trooped in to fill the seats and stare in aghast fascination, like I was some kind of exotic animal. I supposed I was. I sat demurely in a wooden chair, clad in a tear-away brown gingham pioneer dress with three-quarter length sleeves. My feet were bare beneath the floor-length skirt, and I wore no undergarments, but the audience didn’t need to know that.

People in places like this didn’t get much entertainment, but the booming mines were a source of vast wealth, giving them money to burn when amusements such as us rolled in. Most of them wore simple homespun or cowboy clothing, with a few gamblers, whores, and dandies sprinkled here and there. A dark-eyed vaquero with long black hair on the front row caught my eye—he gazed intently at me, but with none of the revolted curiosity of the others.

He smelled strange. Almost wolfish, but not quite. Other werewolves had a wild and bloody odor about them, untamed fur and fang and claw under a veneer of skin, ready to burst forth at any moment, and especially savage under a full moon. I had that lust myself, always lurking inside, which was why I lived in a cage even when it wasn’t showtime. My normal quarters consisted of a trailer much like everyone else’s—only barred and reinforced.

This man was different. Restrained. Controlled. Before I could pick it apart, the last seat was occupied, and Prentiss came in and resumed his spiel. “I have here a bottle of liquid wolfsbane.” He pointed dramatically at a large and elaborate perfume atomizer, sitting on a table outside the cage. “When I spray our Channie with it, she will triple in mass to a pony-sized wolf.”

Several people oohed and ahhed, but there were always scoffers. Someone snorted loudly. Prentiss scooped up the atomizer and held it aloft. “I realize this is hard to accept, but I promise…you will believe!”

He squeezed the bulb, and the effect was instantaneous.

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