Billy's First Werewolf

By Sally Startup

For the first time in his life, Billy accompanies his dad on a werewolf hunting trip. They visit the village where Billy's dad once rescued a little girl named Red from a particularly nasty wolf. Now Red has grown up and Billy is half in love with her. But are all werewolves the same? Now that Billy is now old enough to understand the responsibilities of werewolf hunting, he must learn how to see them clearly. A short story for teen readers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bees Nest Books
• Release date: May 28, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311993045

Sally Startup

Sally Startup lives in Hampshire, England. She writes books for children and young adults and has a PhD in writing for children from the University of Winchester, UK. She used to work as a medical herbalist and is interested in plants, nature and green issues.

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Sally Startup

Billy’s First Werewolf

Bees’ Nest Books

This is a work of fiction. All characters and events in this story are fictitious, and any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental.

First Published 2010 by Bridge House Publishing in the anthology Devils Demons and Werewolves

Smashwords edition published 2014 by Bees’ Nest Books

Copyright 2010 Sally Startup

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CONTENTS

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THREE

FOUR

FIVE

SIX

About Sally Startup

BILLY’S FIRST WEREWOLF

ONE

Night was seeping into the forest. Billy trudged after his father, dead leaves crackling frostily under his boots. A full moon would soon be rising.

Are you sure this is the path to Mosspatch? he asked.

Yes, I remember the smell of it, answered his father. I’ve not been here for ten years, mind. I rescued the innkeeper’s daughter from a werewolf.

Was it a big werewolf?

"The biggest I’ve ever seen and the fiercest. He’d already eaten most of the little girl’s grandmother by the time I arrived. The girl was just standing there, watching, too frightened to run away. That werewolf