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Rated: 18+ · Book · Horror/Scary · #2284649
Adventures In Living With The Mythical
A military veteran is adopted by a werewolf and brought into his pack. Insanity ensues.

About "Life With A Werewolf"

Life with a werewolf is a dramatic blog. As such the characters in this blog are not real but maybe loosely based on real people. The situations represented are not real but maybe loosely based on real things that have happened in my life. There are a multitude of ways to view life, this is simply one of the ways I have chosen to view mine. Updated Every Friday unless I can't or don't want to.

If this is your first time reading this...start here:

https://www.writing.com/main/books/entry_id/1040400-Welcome-To-The-Pack

First compilation book will be available soon on Amazon.

My book, "Dreamers of The Sea" is available now on Amazon:
https://a.co/d/0uz7xa3
January 31, 2025 at 10:22am
January 31, 2025 at 10:22am
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          It should be the most natural thing in the world to see a werewolf at a horror convention. They have fantastic costumes of werewolves at most horror conventions wandering around. These conventions celebrate the fantastic and horrific nature of werewolves in their own way. They'd get constant compliments on the quality of the costume. So, why wouldn't a werewolf go to a horror convention? Yet, Crash has told me that he doesn't believe anyone ever has. "It's a little against our culture to be so exposed," he said to me finally, after I'd asked him the billionth time.
          I guess that makes sense in a way. Werewolves have stayed hidden among humans. I'd consider it hiding in plain sight, but Crash doesn't seem to think so. "A human who dresses up as a werewolf all the time for conventions is easier to see as a werewolf outside of one," Crash told me when I'd asked him about it.
          Makes sense in some way, I suppose. Though, in horror conventions unless your costume is really good people just enjoy the costume and ignore everything else. It's not like it is at other conventions.
          A furry convention I could see being a problem. Everyone would want to know his character, he'd get invited to room parties. People would ask about the quality, how'd he get the ears to move, the tail. The lips, etc...and sooner or later you're going to run out of lies you can tell people.
          But, still, I'd have to do it if I was a werewolf. I'd get a room at a horror convention, go wolf mode, put on a pair of overalls, maybe shred or tear the ends of the legs up a bit first, then wander the convention halls. Everyone seeing my real self and thinking it's a costume. The thrill of that alone would just be too much for me not to try. Suppose that's the reason he's the werewolf and not me. Or maybe, it's because my entire life doesn't depend on the anonymity of part of my entire being.
          But human living relies a bit on anonymity too, doesn't it? We just never think about that part of ourselves. There's a public face we give the world, and a private face we reserve for our most sincere loved ones and perhaps no one at all. The face that has all our dirtiest, meanest scars. The face that also pays all our bills and does the chores. How many of us ever reveal those sides of ourselves? The ones that if everyone knew would leave us as open and naked as walking around nude on a sunny day?
          I suppose in a manner, I understand Crash's reluctance in that. A werewolf's furrier side must be part of that nude side we reserve for loved ones or us alone. It's a side werewolves hold for their own loved ones. Their pack.
          Which leads me to other questions I just don't want to ask Crash right now. Like...are there games and things werewolf families play with their pups to teach them how to act? Certain things they do to ensure their children learn safety and security living in a mostly human world? I can see a werewolf family playing a version of 'house' the way small children do, only you're not allowed to be seen as transformed by the human! Also, does the entire thing happen at birth or do they shift around puberty? That would be a lot worse to deal with than zits!
          I can imagine a child at thirteen sitting in his room, playing on his cellphone. And instead of getting zits or discovering girls on the internet, he starts sprouting hair. His claws grows out and he tosses the phone and shouts for his mom, unsure of what to do. His mom and dad show up and smile at him with pride as he shifts into his werewolf form for the first time.
          Or, maybe it's rather like mom diapering her baby's butt for the tenth time that day only to have a tail sprout out from the bottom of the diaper and tear a hole in it. The mom holds the baby up and the she giggles at her as the child's tail wags. Then the baby starts peeing through the new hole all over the counter.
          Which scenario do you think fits best? I'm not certain at this moment. All I know is that I'm kind of glad I didn't go through either one. Zits was bad enough.
          Every one of us have our own struggles, I suppose. As much fun as it would be to be a werewolf dashing among the trees around some random forest somewhere hunting something with just my teeth and claws, there are downsides too. Like what exactly puberty might do to them. Or that first shift, not knowing the amount of pain you'd feel during the transformation. We're all meant to be in a way in the space we're given in the time we're given it in. God or the universe or whoever doesn't shuffle things around at random. We're placed like careful pieces on a Tabletop Gaming battlefield.
          That's the way I choose to look at it. Your actual mileage may vary. But there's too much evidence out there for me right now to believe that life is some great cosmic accident caused by a lightening strike in a puddle. But who knows? I've been wrong before.


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