The Child: Episode 3

Drive to the Hospital

Alex Kilcannon
TheLiving
Published in
3 min readApr 2, 2021

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Relieved to get a response from the boy, I glanced back over at the wolf.

There was no wolf.

I eased myself up slowly, looking around. No sudden movements, I told myself. Wolves had been native here a couple of hundred years ago, but I was pretty sure they were extinct now. Had an animal escaped from the zoo?

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Alex Kilcannon
TheLiving

Writer, poet, outdoors instructor and Mother of Teenagers. I rewild kids for a living.