Eating the Moon

There are monsters walking among the unsuspecting residents of a remote commune in the Wisconsin woods. Jane knows because she's one of them. 

It's 1970. The rest of America is talking about the moon landing and the war in Vietnam, but Jane's more concerned with local news, like the crooked sheriff who was threatening her friends. 

He's not a threat anymore, but Meredith, strange and silent, knows what Jane has done to him and where she goes during the full moon. She proposes an exchange of secrets that binds them closer than Jane could have imagined. 

Short story, 1500 words.