Kit Reed writes fresh, exciting stories ripped straight out of tomorrow's headlines. A boy raised by wolves, the dog that knows exactly who is next to die, a monkey that writes bestsellers—no, Kit Reed's new collection is by no means the next Animal Planet. What Wolves Know also contains "Doing the Butterfly," in which a convict with murder in his heart sets out to deceive the newest Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine, and the sparkling story "Special," about a nature writer named Ashley Famous, who overturns local society in a small town on the Hudson. In "The Chaise," a university community stands by while the narrator grapples with a despicable piece of furniture, and baffled parents in "Denny" arm themselves, fearing that their son, the title character, "may go all Columbine on us." Contents: Monkey Do What Wolves Know Doing the Butterfly Special Baby Brother Denny Camp Nowhere The Blight Family Singers The Chaise Akbar Missing Sam Aunt Lizzie Song of the Black Dog What She Thought She Was Doing: The Fictions of Kit Reed / essay by Joseph Reed