"Oh, Geoffrey! Good. You're finally home. Just put it all on the kitchen table. Were you able to get everything I wanted for the party?""Yes, ma'am.""It's just that it's so late, did you run into any ... [+]
Matt Dennison is the author of Kind Surgery, from Urtica Press (Fr.) and Waiting for Better, from Main Street Rag Press. "Dreamwolf" is in Short Circuit #09, Short Édition's quarterly review.
Dare we invite the dreamwolf in, to jump through our chaste window, carry us over the midnight snow under a far moon? Dare we—at this stage in the old game—dare to feel the galloping charge of hot breath, rough hair? Outside our window the dreamwolf passes, hungry, unconcerned with us.