Pinnochio Wolf-Girl: Modern Fantasy

She was very careful to never ever tell a lie. She knew what happened to wooden children that did. Their noses grew and grew and they could never be mistaken for real children, not unless they went on a great long quest that was difficult and dangerous. She didn't want to do that. So she was very very careful to never tell a lie. She knew she wasn't a real child, not like the others, but she watched them ever so carefully, and she paid all the attention in the world to what her foster mother told her a real little girl should do. Not that her foster mother put it like that, of course. They didn't know that she was a wooden girl, never born, raised by wild animals until she knew that she was different from them, and that she wanted to be a real girl.


Inspiration: "Zen In The Art of Writing." He talks a lot about using memories with strong emotional weight as Muse food, which is oh-so-very-much not my way.
Potential: High, but only because of the idea, not the execution.
Notes: And I think that the idea of a creature half-toy and half-wolf that wants to be human could actually really freakin' resonate if done well. Not sure that this particular bit works, but I still like the idea.