We are not sorry for the fur, the fangs, the claws, or the howls. We are sorry for every year we pretended they weren’t there.
“You okay?” she asked, her voice still half-snarl. the day my sister and i turned into wild beasts
I knelt in the dirt. I pressed my palms into the earth and felt the cool grit under my fingernails. I dug. Not to bury anything, but to anchor myself to something true. The beast in me didn’t need to chase. It needed to root. I pulled up handfuls of wild grass and let the blades cut my skin. The pain was a revelation. It was mine. We are not sorry for the fur, the
When I stood up, my knees were stained brown, my hair was a nest of twigs, and my cheeks were wet with tears I hadn’t felt fall. I looked at my sister. She was standing on a rocky outcropping, chest heaving, a feral grin splitting her face. I knelt in the dirt