BACK OF THE ENVELOPE The coyotes didn’t show themselves, no matter how hard I searched. Some nights my mom came into my room and stroked my hair before I left to search them out. 
Barking Dog Nocturnal
Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam’s fiction and poetry has appeared in over 50 publications such as Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Fairy Tale Review, and LeVar Burton Reads, as well as in six languages. She has been a finalist for the Nebula Award and won the Grand Prize in the SyFy Channel’s Battle the Beast contest; SyFy made and released an animated short of her short story "Party Tricks" set in the world of The Magicians. She curates the annual Art & Words Show in Fort Worth.