My head was stuffed full of dreams: wolves and humans and blood smeared on lips.

I slowly climbed back to my feet, walked back into the emergency department through the silently swishing glass doors, and, covered in my girlfriend's blood, lied perfectly for the first time in my life. "I tried to stop her.

But by blood, no wolf am I

When you were born, the rivers dried up and the cattle in Rockingham County wept blood.