MicroHorror » Thornton Austen http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror Short stories. Endless nightmares. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:47:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Love and the Inner Beast http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/thornton-austen/love-and-the-inner-beast/ http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/thornton-austen/love-and-the-inner-beast/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:53:21 +0000 Nathan http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/thornton-austen/love-and-the-inner-beast/ I never smelled a girl like her in Safeway. She pushed a buggy down the cereal aisle and turned her cheek to hide the striped claw mark that makeup couldn’t. I knew the lacy blouse hid more scars like the crescent on my cheek a pup gave me as a child.

As I sacked her groceries, my heart sank–

Cat food.

Large brown eyes showed the felines were just a snack.

“Beautiful moon tonight,” I said. “Feel like a howl?”

Her pupils narrowed to slits. She smiled as her nostrils tasted me.

“Sure.”

Finally. My kind of girl.

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