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Submitted to Contest #309
“Think fast!”The flopping sunfish collided with his chest and he squealed, throwing his hands back and shutting his eyes. The fish landed in the creek with a healthy plop and swam away downstream, through his legs ankle-deep in the water. Its back glittered beneath the surface until it was out of sight.“You’re such a girl sometimes!” I laughed, good-naturedly.”They’re gross, Keaton! They’re covered in slime!”He bent down and sloshed his bronze hands around in the clear freshwater. My two remaining captures swam in my bucket like Pisces, plac...
Submitted to Contest #308
七月一日2001年July 7th, 2001 It was four months after moving to Hokkaido that I met her, the deer. She was timid at first, never venturing past the railing of conifers at the edge of the yard, but I learned what would butter her up quickly: carrots, peanuts, lettuce—food you can get at any grocery store around here, no matter how remote. I would mix the ingredients together in a big bowl and leave it in an old weathered tree stump, an ideal pedestal for my offering, wrought to steel in the wind and cold. Winters here are harsh, the harshest in t...
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