Howl

By Kelley York

Ivan and his family moved in with their grandpa in order to rally around his sick little brother, Eli, as he went through treatment. It’s not a bad change; Ivan and Eli love to sit outside and listen to the wolves howling from the woods. It’s calming. At least, until Eli disappears from his bed to go looking for them. Chasing after his brother brings Ivan face-to-face with a strange, wild, beautiful boy living in the forest with the wolves...and nothing will ever be the same.

Part of Take A Chance Anthology

• Language: English
• Publisher: Beaten Track Publishing
• Release date: Dec 8, 2016
• ISBN: 9781786451170

Kelley York

Kelley is a central California girl through and through. She resides in Sacramento with her wife, daughter, a German Shepherd, a handful of cats and rats. In addition to writing, she has her A.S. in Anthropology, and is a graphic designer with a specialty in book cover design. She spends her spare time playing video games and tabletop games like the nerd she is. Her specialty is LGBT+ fiction, usually with a dark twist.

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Take a Chance Anthology

Howl

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Kelley York

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This story is a work of fiction and the characters and events in it exist only in its pages and in the author’s imagination.

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Ivan and his family moved in with their grandpa in order to rally around his sick little brother, Eli, as he went through treatment. It’s not a bad change; Ivan and Eli love to sit outside and listen to the wolves howling from the woods. It’s calming. At least, until Eli disappears from his bed to go looking for them. Chasing after his brother brings Ivan face-to-face with a strange, wild, beautiful boy living in the forest with the wolves…and nothing will ever be the same.

Part of Take a Chance Anthology.

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Table of Contents

Howl

Take a Chance Anthology

About the Author

By the Author

Beaten Track Publishing

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Howl

Kelley York

Mother doesn’t let Eli outside.

But sometimes when she leaves the house and Grandpa isn’t paying attention, I take him onto the back deck. He loves to look at the woods that stretch into the distance and listen to the howling.

Their cries pierce the night, and he asks me, Ivan… Dogs?

Wolves, I correct. Remember, like in that movie we watched?

Wolves, he repeats.

He’s four. He should be speaking better than he does, complete sentences and all that, but Eli was a quiet baby and that continued into his toddler years. Mom thinks it’s the