Mongrels

by Stephen Graham Jones

He’s the one who finally figured out the real way to recognize a werewolf. They’re the ones who never grow up.

“Always feed a wolf his fill,” the old woman quotes out loud, “lest you wake with your throat in his jaws.”

People say werewolves are animals, but they’re wrong. We’re so much worse. We’re people, but with claws, with teeth, with lungs that can go for two days, legs that can eat up counties.