Start running. If you make it fun for us, we'll let you live.

Lark figured a weekend alone in the woods with the school's mean girls would involve them ordering her to clean up their messes while seeing how many synonyms for "fat" they could rhyme with her name. Basically just like school, but more so. She didn't expect them to transform into wolves in front of her eyes. Now she's nursing a bite wound and counting down the days to the next full moon.

She has one chance at a cure. One chance to get her bullies out of her life forever. There's just one catch: the price may be the life of an innocent girl.

This short story is 10,000 words long. It is also available in Lonely Streets, an urban fantasy short story collection.