Monster Hunting for Girls Ages 8-14 | Cora Ruskin

Cora Ruskin is a part-time MSc student of Science Communication, and works for a charity that helps victims of crime. Writing gets squeezed in between the two. She is the author of the YA novel Other People’s Butterflies, and blogs at corastillwrites.wordpress.com.  She lives in Bristol, England, with five housemates and a very messy kitchen.   The WulverThere’s fish on the windowsills this morning.Tins of tuna, cans of salmon,fresh and cold in the dawn chill.Nan says it used to bewhole fish, straight from the net,shining like silver and glass.She says half the town is broke now.Covid cutbacks, withered businesses,universal bloody credit.On telly, there’s American towns with werewolves.Nice towns, big houses,beautiful bedrooms for the girls,beautiful cars for the boys.Vicious werewolves that bite very sexilythe bit between a boy’s ribs and hip.Mysteries that grip like jaws,murders that don’t feel permanent.Us, we’ve got the Wulver.A man’s body, buck-naked,beer gut and hairy chest.Thre