Don't Wake The White Wolf
At the beginning of September, the first day of school officially arrived.
I woke up to the loud, persistent blare of my alarm clock. Stepping into the bathroom, I used a pair of shears to trim a few strands of hair into a sharper, short layered bob, the jet-black locks framing my angular face. A steady sip of Nanny Mary’s herbal medicine each week had completely suppressed the abnormal transformations. No more wolf ears, no more feral blue irises.
I looked up at the Blackwood High School uniform hanging on the rack. Unlike previous years when I had resignedly wrapped myself in a baggy, frumpy long skirt to hide my thin, trembling legs, today I decisively chose the straight-leg uniform trous