This Time Around: A Canadian Werewolf in New York Story
By Mark Leslie
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For Michael Andrews, a Canadian living in Manhattan and afflicted with lycanthropy, there are odd side effects to being a werewolf in the middle of a bustling metropolis.
Such as waking up naked in Battery Park with absolutely no memory of the night before as a wolf and trying to figure out why there is a bullet hole in his leg.
Just another day in the life of a man living with the odd side affect of his werewolf affliction.
(This 10,000 word short story is the original short story written by Mark Leslie that eventually inspired the full length Mark Leslie Novel: A Canadian Werewolf in New York)
Mark Leslie
Mark Leslie is a writer of "Twilight Zone" or "Black Mirror" style speculative fiction. He lives in Southwestern Ontario and is sometimes seen traveling to book events with his life-sized skeleton companion, Barnaby Bones. His books include the "Canadian Werewolf" series, numerous horror story collections, and explorations of haunted locales. When he is not writing, or reading, Mark can be found haunting bookstores, libraries or local craft beer establishments.
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This Time Around - Mark Leslie
THIS TIME AROUND
Mark Leslie
This Time Around: A Canadian Werewolf in New York Story
Stark Publishing
January 2013
Copyright © 2013 Mark Leslie Lefebvre
The characters and events portrayed in this story are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author
For Paula and Mick
THIS TIME AROUND
This time I woke to find myself sprawled naked in the grass, my shoulder nestled in a shrub and the coppery aftertaste of blood in my mouth. It was a cool morning, but humid, the unmistakable scent of the Hudson River hanging in the air.
I pulled my aching body into a sitting position and checked it over for injuries. Apart from the usual scrapes and scratches there was a nasty looking wound in my thigh. It hurt like it was no more than a bad bruise, but it looked like a bullet hole. I ran my hand down the leg and stuck my finger inside. Yes indeed, it was a bullet hole - the bullet was nestled just about an inch deep.
At least the bullet wasn’t silver - now that I would have felt.
So to sum up my situation, there was a distinct taste of blood in my mouth and a bullet wound in my leg.
What the hell had I done this time?
I took a look around me. The park I was in was on the Hudson; that I could tell from the scent of the water. The early morning mist revealed beautiful Lady Liberty to me in teasing glimpses. Okay, so this was Battery Park. I was on the south western tip of Manhattan Island. And since I was currently a guest at the Algonquin Hotel in Mid-Town, getting three quarters of the way across this island bare naked was going to be one hell of a chore.
Uncovering the mystery of what exactly I’d been up to during last night’s full moon, would, of course, be another.
But I was a mystery writer after all; and was usually able to piece it all together upon examination of the evidence. My memories as a wolf were scattered and non-linear snatches of smells, sounds, tastes, feelings and sights, not often available to my human conscious mind. Trying to piece them together in my conscious mind often gave me a migraine. I’d always thought perhaps that was how I’d preserved my sanity.
Unfortunately, with my growing popularity as a mystery writer, it was becoming easier for people to recognize me - at least in human form, that is. Finding a picture of myself scampering about the city butt naked on the cover of the tabloids was not a pleasant thought.
Was it time to move out of New York?
No, after all, growing up reading Spider-Man comic books, I’d always wanted to live here. So I was living my childhood dream. In my dreams, though, I’d been the wall-crawler, swinging around the city rooftops and nabbing the bad guys - I’d never dreamed that I would be one of the monsters that Spider-Man often faced down, like that astronaut who, wearing a moon rock