The Stray Moon
All I get for my trouble is a flick of its head that nearly snaps my wrist, bones grinding inside the meat like crushed gravel.
It’s deliberate, the way it works on me. No frenzied shaking, no tearing. Just a slow, mechanical press—like it wants to savor what it’s doing. The wolf’s eyes bore into mine, blacker than night and steady, like it’s reading me. Judging the resistance. It smells like wet pennies and rotted leaves, the stink of something that was human once and decided it was better this way.
I scream, hoping for a neighbor, a cop, hell, even a stray dog. But nothing answers. The world is still on mute, like every living thing has voted me off the island.
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