I got my rabies shots and everything is fine now. The bite on my hand healed to a silver sickle and everything is perfectly normal again. Hasn’t the moon always pulsed in the sky like a toothache? Hasn’t my skin always buzzed like cicadas swarming?

Haven’t you always looked delicious?

Jennifer Skogen is the author of The Haunting of Grey Hills series, and her work has appeared in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Luna Station Quarterly, Tales from the Moonlit Path, and Crow & Cross Keys. Jennifer lives near Seattle, Washington, and goes hiking in beautiful places whenever it isn’t raining.