Werewolf

By Tabitha Swann

Jan and Lilly are lost on a desolate road as they try to find a Christian fellowship campsite where they were going to meet up with other members of their congregation. Meanwhile, two escaped female convicts have trouble with their getaway car and wind up on the same road, stranded. The Christian women stop for the women and are carjacked by the two convicts...The women don't get far, however, as they run over what they think is a large dog in the road...Stopping to assess the damage, they realize that it is no dog, but a werewolf who is now chasing them back into the woods...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trellis Publishing
• Release date: Jul 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201855024

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Jan and Lilly drove until small-town Muskogee was well in their rear view, until the rolling fields of West Oklahoma gave way to the enormous deciduous trees of the Ozark National Forest and the blue sky submitted to the dusk. Jan sang and tried for the third time in the past hour to get Lilly to join in, singing the same song as Lilly watched the world drift by the window. It was the farthest Lilly had been from home in two years. Crossing that five-mile invisible barrier which had held her prisoner since the accident, Lilly couldn’t help but think about the girl she used to be, the places she used to want to go.

Oh, I’m proud to be an Okie from Muskogee, Jan stated to sing, with an eye on Lilly, grinning.

Lilly rolled her eyes and laughed. She didn’t join in. Jan was twice Lily’s age, somewhere in her mid-fifties, with short-cropped, greying hair and an infectious smile. Her sweater, a blue sweater depicting a soaring eagle, was as bright and cheerful as she was.

Jan grabbed Lilly’s hand, gave it a squeeze, and said, You’re going to have the best time, you’ll see. The kids are just the sweetest bunch you’ll ever meet. It’ll be good for you and them. You’ll wonder why you didn’t do this sooner. Come on. Say it.

Say what now? Lilly said.

"Say, I, Lilly, am going to have the best time."

Lilly laughed. Jan lifted her hand up in the air.

Woop! Jan said.

Jan looked ahead and some of her girlish enthusiasm drifted away. She let the car slow and come to a stop at a fork in the road.

First of all, though, Jan said, we’re going to have to figure out how to get there.

Jan rolled the car to the side of the road and flipped on the headlights. The sky was still a pale blue, dulling as seven o’ clock came around. The headlights didn’t help much with visibility, seeing as it wasn’t actually that dark yet, but Lilly figured it was Jan’s way of trying to make her feel safer. She had driven ten miles below the speed limit the whole three-hour trip so far. Lilly hadn’t told her that she was worried about being in a car for such