Charlotte McConaghy

One beast and only one howls in the woods by night.

—ANGELA CARTER

“Waste is the true enemy of the planet,”

I had always known there was something different about me, but that was the day I first recognized it to be dangerous. It was also the day, as I stumbled out of the shed into a long violet dusk, that I looked to the trees’ edge and saw my first wolf, and it saw me.