The moon is full. I hear the howls. I know she is coming. I bar the doors and shudder. I hear the howls coming closer. Soon she’ll be at my front door. I cannot bear to peek out the window. The sight of her is too horrifying for me.
Now her howls are almost deafening. She is scratching and pounding on my front door. I live remotely in a forest isolated from any neighbors and there is no one to help me.
I know she won’t kill me. I know somewhere inside that monstrous she beast a heart still beats with love for me.
I know when she transforms into that terrifying creature during full moons she wants me to become a monster too in a twisted act of moonlit love.
I thought my love was strong enough to keep loving her after she became a werewolf, but when she killed that entire family with three children, I had to leave her and move far away from her hunting grounds.
A month after I left she found me, and now she hunts near where I live on full moon nights. When the moon isn’t full, she is a sweet pretty woman who seems incapable of harming anyone. But I know better. I’ve seen her rip people apart with her claws and her fangs, and I want none of that.
She senses I still love her. She thinks one day I’ll give in and let her infect me with her lycanthropy and be with her again. And when she comes for me during those full moon nights I know she is putting spells on me with her howls and werewolf whines. Each full moon night I grow a little weaker. I hope I can hold out.
Bob Boyd