|
 Wolf's Blood (a
snippet from the novel)
--C. K. Casner
The long dark hair whipped in the wind
as he stood in the thick forest, the mountains looming all
around. She shivered with cold, but the
sight of the figure standing silently chilled her more to the
bone than the cold did. His clothes were spattered with blood
and his amber eyes glowed while his blood stained teeth grinned
evilly at her and then the mouth opened wide and struck…
Jenna awoke with a start, and then moaned as she put a hand
to her head. She had hardly drank last night, so why did she
feel as though she had a major hangover? Two beers were not enough
to warrant the kind of pain she was feeling at the moment. She
wished that she could get back to work soon and maybe the strange
nightmares would stop.
She briefly thought about Lana and shook
her head, wondering if her friend was suffering more than she
at the moment. The woman would come to a bad end should she
continue her heavy drinking. Jenna knew what it was like to
be lonely. She had felt that way for most her life, growing
up with an indifferent mother and years later, living with
a philandering fiancé.
She stumbled to the bathroom and
opened the medicine cabinet, looking for the bottle of Tylenol
to calm the raging headache. After popping a couple of pills
and drinking from the faucet; she ran her tongue over her
teeth, hating the fuzzy feeling of not having brushed the night
before. She grabbed up her toothbrush and liberally loaded it
with toothpaste. The brush clattered as it fell into the sink
from her still hand. With a gasp of surprise, she pulled her
top lip up and studied her teeth. Her canines looked as though
they had grown, dropping below the rest of her even teeth,
resembling fangs. She put her thumb to one and pressed hard,
not willing to believe what she was seeing. A small drop
of blood appeared on the offended digit; she watched in horror
as the wound began to close before her very eyes. She stared
at her injured lip in the mirror where Willis had struck
her and let out a loud gasp. The cut had completely healed, only
a slight yellow tinge remained from the dark bruise that she
had sported the night before. "This isn't happening.
It's all a bad dream," she murmured to herself as she
continued to stare at her elongated teeth. She was no dentist,
but she knew enough that adult teeth do not just grow in length
overnight. She covered her mouth in shock as she noticed that
her hair now hung past her collar bone. She backed away from
the mirror in horror until her heels struck the tiled wall
and slid down. "What
the hell is happening to me?"
Click below for more information
|
