“I sat with that for a long time. I thought of every person I had met, wondering how many of them had wolves inside them and just had never pulled them out. Or perhaps more horrible: how many of them, in a moment of fear, reached inside themselves for something to save them, and came up empty,” (Szabo 262).
As a young girl Eleanor Zarrin was sent away from her home to attend St. Brigid’s Boarding School. Eleanor doesn’t know why, but after an incident at her boarding school she can think of nowhere else to go but home. But after so many years away she hardly remembers her family at all, her monstrous relatives who prowl the woods as wolves at night, her mother always soaking her polyped half in the tub, the strange Arthur who comes and goes as he pleases, or her grandmother Persephone who sent her away in the first place. Eleanor isn’t seeing things clearly but she’ll have to learn to so she can keep her family safe. Continue reading
Sarah O'Connor 