News From Poughkeepsie – Day 126

Late start on this one, but it seems weird to write about these kind of things in the daytime, you know?

Before we get to this week’s theme, I just want to remind everyone about this fine shirt that’s going to be given away at the end of the month.

As I said last week, the only way to get one of these bad boys is to write a story–that’s beginning, middle and end, folks–inspired by one of the prompts in October. You can put your story, or a link to it in the comments, or send it right to me at newsfrompoughkeepsie (at) gmail.com. My favorite gets the shirt.

On to this week’s theme. As was pointed out in Sunday’s comments, werewolves follow naturally with vampires. Werewolves are less mysterious than vampires, however, and their mythology much more concrete. Full moon = wolf. It’s hard to improve on that.

So this week, rather than taking werewolves apart, we’ll be spending time with them. Too many of these NFP entries have been plot-focused, so I think it’ll be nice to be character focused for a week.

Werewolves I have known…

Zach says he doesn’t mind the change much anymore. Says he’s come to terms. We’ve all got our rows to hoe, he says, his isn’t any different. Old Roger Gilbert mutters something about his destroyed rabbit hutch and my he has to pay for Zach’s hoeing, but no ones pays him any mind.

Zach says he’s a changed man, but he didn’t need to say it. We can all see the return of Zach’s beard. He shaved it off right after he got bit, and it’s good to see it back. Zack said he didn’t want hair on his face, not while human. Good to see human nature–and probably a bit of sloth–win out.

“I’m okay,” he said, ordering another beer. “I’m a werewolf.”

“Naturally,” said the bartender. “You everyone else in this town…”