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Ada Smith

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Raising Maisie

Ada Smith

Submitted to Contest #314

It was just bad timing, the birth.Maisie was born on a full moon in the middle of summer. In the morning her mother turned back into a women, but Maisie stayed a tiny, wriggling, blind and deaf wolf pup. The father werewolf drove to the store and brought puppy formula. The mother werewolf quit her job as a kindergarten teacher. The couple did not file a birth certificate--how could they? Instead they moved across the country, and the mother werewolf did not see a doctor again for fear they'd get her medical records and ask questions about wh...

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The Creature Known as Danger: One Wolf's Account of Humanity

Ada Smith

Submitted to Contest #279

Her scent, caught on the snow-fallen breeze, was entirely new to me, but my mother knew her kind.We were in the tall-rock-place, and the scent on the wind was salt, blood, and something not quite floral that raised the ends of my thick fur with its echo touch. I had not yet survived my first winter.When I bounded over to my mother, she was weary. Did she know to whom the scent belonged?Danger, came my mother's answer, her tail stuck straight as a birch log.My mother was an old wolf, and she had spent her whole life learning our territory and...

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