Caroline Gioiosa Caroline Gioiosa received her MFA from New York University, where she is the 2023-2024 Axinn Writer-in-Residence. Her fiction is published in The Yale Review.

The Wolf Man | Fiction

Caroline Gioiosa

I met the Wolf Man at a pool hall in Point Reyes last summer. Under the sickly bar lights, his face looked scrambled, like a Cubist collage — one eye higher than the other, an uneven nose, a mouth that could swallow a fist. I’d arrived alone on a Thursday night, after driving a half hour north from my parents’ beach house on the mesa. The Wolf Man was the...