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The opening day of rifle season...

The opening day of rifle season. Deer run back and forth through the laurel—each shift of the wind must bring a different human’s stink.

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The still, gray morning is interrupted...

The still, gray morning is interrupted by the throaty roar of a pickup truck full of hunters hauling an enormous homemade wooden tree stand.

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Halfway up the ridge, a flashlight...

Halfway up the ridge, a flashlight bobs through the trees, stops, goes out. Then the rustling thuds of hooves in dry leaves. Then silence.

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