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.
The view from my front porch first thing in the morning, in 140 or fewer characters.
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.
The still, gray morning is interrupted by the throaty roar of a pickup truck full of hunters hauling an enormous homemade wooden tree stand.
Halfway up the ridge, a flashlight bobs through the trees, stops, goes out. Then the rustling thuds of hooves in dry leaves. Then silence.