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Show boo, so I wasn't surprised they were crying and quaking. I started wishing Mama would come home early. "You kids really think you need all the lights in the house on?" Papasaid. Then he got real quiet and seious. "I didn't want to tell you wall this, but on the way home I noticed that the moon was full." He paused. "Welp," he said, "I gotta run back over to the VFW. Be back in a few minutes." "NO PAPA!" Kelly said. "You can't leave us here alone." I was standing at the window, peeking through the curtains at the full moon. It was huge, pasted against the sky and shining yellow and bright right at our house. My breath made a little circle of steam on the window 'cause I was breathing so hard. "I left my hat over yonder when I was playing cards," Papa said. "I got to go get it." "Papa you never wore your hat today," I said. I was expecting any minute for the head of the werewolf to show up black against the moon the way they always do in the movies. I let the curtain close. "Believe I did," he said. He growled deep in his throat. "While I'm gone, if any old werewolf creeps in here, you remember to put silver bullets in Jeffrey's gun so you can shoots him." Papa laughed again and walked slow toward the door, dragging one leg behind him the way the werewolf had done. He clutched his leg like he had been shot and he looked over his shoulder the way the real wolf did in the movie, looking for the townpeople who were follogingfto kill him. "Papa," I said, "you have got to stop that." I could see that -8- |