Friday Flash: With the Moon

[aldersprig]

Thank to lilfluff for the prompt.

Written for Friday Flash

The shift came with the moon.

It was inexorable, unavoidable, inevitable: if you had the blood, then you shifted. All over the world, in every land, someone would look up at the night sky... and Change.

In Parkwood, where one particular moon-bound had been rather overfriendly a few generations back - the milkman, it turns out - the whole town would, on those nights, simply, quietly, Change. Women, men, children - those few who had not had the blood had found it very uncomfortable and moved out, or, in a few cases, married in and simply learned to work around it.

Neighboring towns had learned to stay clear of Parkwood on those nights, when the moon was new and the sky was dark. It was a strange place to be, when everyone around you was covered with fur and nuzzling against your leg, helping you across the street and washing your car. It was a strange place indeed, when the werewolves Changed.

Comments

[anke]

wonderful XD

[aldersprig]

*grin/blush* thank you

[(Anonymous)]

I like the light-hearted way you cover a horror subject without it actually being a horror story. There are some great phrases in there. I did chuckle about most of the town being related to the milkman too. (A very busy milkman it seems. :) )

And the idea of werewolves nuzzling your leg, or washing your car quite tickled my sense of humour too.

All in all a really good read, and in such a low word count too.
Welcome to friday flash.
Steve Green.

[aldersprig]

Thanks so much! I had a lot of fun with the idea - and I *do* like the microfiction.

[clare_dragonfly]

cool! Such nice werewolves.

[aldersprig]

;-D

[natf]

Interesting that you use the new (dark) moon for lycanthropy instead of the usual full moon and that the moon-bound need to look up at the sky to change instead of it being automatic on the start of a moon phase whether you are locked away in a dark basement or not, such as is more usual in lycanthropy tales. I liked it.

[aldersprig]

Thank you! I figured sweet werewolves would have different rules.

[(Anonymous)]

I like this.

In the middle, with the "simply, quietly, Change", I started thinking of some other stories I like, where the werewolves are, in essence, just people - no matter what shape they're in.

Then, after the last paragraph, and even more so after reading the comments, I was reminded of this: http://threepanelsoul.com/2011/02/08/on-wild-animals/

Really, many of the old stories are rather unfair to actual wolves...

-EdorFaus

[aldersprig]

That's an ADORABLE comic.

Glad you liked the story, and thanks for stopping by.