"The Wife's Story"

"And then the awful thing. I don't find it easy to tell about this. I want to cry when I have to bring it to my mind. Our youngest, the little one, my baby, she turned from her father. Just overnight."

"It was the moon, that's what they say. It's the moon's fault, and the blood...it's the change of the moon that does it. Always happens in the dark of the moon. When everybody's home and asleep."

"...A grief howl and a terror howl and a calling howl...I was still bound by mortal fear, but behind me the children had waked up, and the baby was whimpering. The mother anger came into me then..."

"And I guess things moved right along after that, because pretty soon he was over here pretty near all the time. And my sister said...'Well! If he's going to be here every day and half the night, I guess there isn't rom for me!' And she moved out-"

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