Red Hood

by Elana K. Arnold

“Darling,” she said, and her hazel eyes were electric, her mouth a straight flat line, “it is not your job to make boys happy.”

Sometimes boys become wolves.

Through the lenses, the world blurs for you. Strange how a thing can strengthen one person and weaken another.

The Wolf Is Not Always a Wolf.

It Is Better to be Torn to Pieces than to Become a Wolf’s Prey.

A Wolf Sheds His Coat Every Year, but His Nature Never Changes.

One Who Is Not Willing to Risk Her Child Will Not Catch the Wolf.

Ten years, dearest, is a long time for a secret. In ten years, a secret grows deep roots. It works its way into every crevice of the relationship. Sometimes, when you expose the secret to the light, when you untwist its limbs and pull it away, the relationship can grow stronger. But other times, dear one, this is not possible.

Wolves Will Pay Dearly for the Tears of the Sheep.

The world is not kind to women who cry wolf,” she cautions. “It never has been.”

“People used to believe that werewolves were created by witches. So, even way back in the fourteenth century, women were being blamed for men’s bad behavior.”