Monday, June 10, 2013

Bathroom Monologue: Werewolves on the Moon



If it is a curse from God, then it is for humanity to forgive. We can give them a better and brighter future, and they can send down a ladder so that we may climb up after them.

It's been their antagonist for millennia. Yet wolfsbane cannot grow there, and most of its surface is absent of silver deposits. Our engineers suggest there is no real moonrise in space, and so they ought not to turn, especially not in a shuttle without windows.

The bounty will arrive upon landing, for once a werewolf stands on the moon, he will not ever again see it rise or set in full. There will be no further changes or demonic impulses. They are cursed to live eternal, but they will live eternal as men and women. There is no howling on the moon itself.

If their immortality is so great that they cannot take their own lives, then can they suffocate? If not, then they can live on the surface as they erect our way stations. If they can, then we will support them, sending as much air as they will need for years.

Despite their legendary appetite, we know werewolves cannot starve themselves to death. Too many wretched souls have tried. Thus they will require no food as they become the explorers, the miners, and the maintenance crews for the stations that will erect our shuttles to Mars and beyond. They'll never have to leave the moon, and play a hand in the culture that grows there as it becomes the first stop in interplanetary travel.

One great experiment, too: to see what changes in the breast of man when he sees a full in earth his sky.

And for the dissenting opinion...

11 comments:

  1. I am not at all certain about the 'better and brighter future'. A self-serving pronouncement I suspect. I would be interested in hearing a werewolf's response.

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    1. The dissenting werewolf opinion? I might run that soon. I can't say...

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  2. Clever! haha.

    I feel werewolves are a highly neglected and marginalized fantasy species. Or maybe I just have never been "up" on the literature surrounding them?

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    1. I don't read much werewolf fiction, at least of the contemporary stripe. Most times I cross paths with them they're residing in a kind of smut that just doesn't appeal to me. They're sort of the less popular brother in the incredibly popular Boy Band of Urban Fantasy Monsters. Vampires being the dream boat.

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  3. Clever twist. Rather exploits the werewolves though. Hope they go willingly.

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  4. See, I would have thought the exact opposite. The pull of the moon on earth causes them to change, so ON the moon, wouldn't they remain beasts all the time? And I hadn't heard the immortal thing before, but I like that twist! Immortality would make it more appealing, at least to some. That is, if they don't age too...

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    1. This one is presuming it's the appearance of a full moon in the sky that does it, ala the mythos of the Wolf Man serials and the folklore it came from. If werewolves are tidal creatures who transform based on earthly pulls, they might actually be better suited to undersea exploration!

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  5. Interesting piece, and as a fan of werewolf stories, it makes me wonder what would happen to my favorite werewolf characters if they went to the moon and lived there. =)

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  6. This would be very interesting indeed. And actually why not, maybe going on and force them to stare not only the Earth but also the other full planets! They might have different reaction, create different sub-races and start a very nasty intergalactic war! Mmmmmh....

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  7. What a brilliant idea! You know, many writers would base whole novels on ideas like this.

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    1. Well, that's flattering! If only I had the time to write every novel that came to mind...

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