During A Violent Storm, A Woman Sheltered Four Wolves — By Morning, Her Home Was Unrecognizable

beginning, the first sounds of the village waking, the small movements of a house adjusting to the rising temperature. This was a complete silence, sealed, as if the world outside the windows had been replaced with something else overnight.

The wolves were gone.

The door was closed. The room was empty except for the traces of their presence: the melted continue reading …