Blue Wolf in Green Fire (2008)
“to stretch cramped muscles and take a leak. He was less than a hundred yards up the refuge’s driveway from M-77 and it was quiet, the air motionless. He lingered to light his first cigarette of the day, enjoying the palpable silence. As soon as he got the cigarette in his mouth he heard a muted thump followed by screeching brakes and the sound of collapsing metal. He instinctively grabbed his oh-shit kit and ran down the driveway with his light.
To the south on his side of the road he saw the silhouette of something slumped on the shoulder; directly across the road from him a mini van was turtled on its roof in the cattails ten yards off the road. Shit-kicker music blared from the radio, something about friends in low places.
He ran to the lump on the shoulder and found a man, the fletching of an arrow sticking out of his chest. The man was on his back, writhing, gasping for air and choking, trying to move. One of the man’s legs was bent ninety degrees to the side, and blood c...ascaded from his mouth.MoreLess
To the south on his side of the road he saw the silhouette of something slumped on the shoulder; directly across the road from him a mini van was turtled on its roof in the cattails ten yards off the road. Shit-kicker music blared from the radio, something about friends in low places.
He ran to the lump on the shoulder and found a man, the fletching of an arrow sticking out of his chest. The man was on his back, writhing, gasping for air and choking, trying to move. One of the man’s legs was bent ninety degrees to the side, and blood c...ascaded from his mouth.MoreLess
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