There are 3 main characters in “This is Shyness,” Wildgirl so-named because it is the slogan on her teeshirt, Wolfboy because he howls at inopportune moments such as when he first spots Wildgirl, and the suburb, Shyness.To explain Shyness, the suburb: In a sort-of dystopian future world similar t...
The gutter nearly trips me, I’m so desperate to get away. I’m choking, spitting clouds of breath, and not because of the running. A howl nearly forces its way past my lips and I have to bite hard to keep it down. The toilet and the blazing convenience store lurch into view. The light sears my eye...
‘Put him down here,’ says the Queen to Wolfboy, patting a desk. Wolfboy lays Paul carefully down on the flat surface, and the Queen fetches a cushion to lay under his head. The Queen of the Night is not at all what I expected. She’s my age, plump, with dyed black hair, blue eyes, red lipstick and...