The Guinea Worm

The Guinea Worm

Pursuit of the tiny African parasite had fallen to his drinking buddies, who found it an amusing— though quite dangerous—game. Wait a minute!” said Bucky Blackrod. “I can feel it moving now. Get ready. Okay, nail the bastard!” A group of drunks lunged at his hairy...
An Excerpt from “Big Grizzly by Bow”

An Excerpt from “Big Grizzly by Bow”

As it appears in Alaska Bears: Stirred and Shaken by Jake Jacobson The weather had recently turned colder, but we’d had no big winds for some time, so the willows still retained a lot of their leaves, which made visibility a bit less than ideal, but the project was...
An excerpt from Plumb Bob’s Pig

An excerpt from Plumb Bob’s Pig

When the pig appeared on stage as the final auction item, Plumb Bob rasped his vow to have that cute little thing. The clamorous crowd cheered as the auctioneer kicked into gear. A young grunter of this pig’s peer would normally sell for about thirty-five dollars,...
Excerpt from Blood Red Mackinaw by Ryan Stalvey

Excerpt from Blood Red Mackinaw by Ryan Stalvey

Inch by inch, the afternoon sun steadily dissolves, casting an orange and pink haze over the sparsely populated landscape of rural Pennsylvania. From the front window of a seedy boarding house, Curt Sloan peers through the unclean glass panes, then disappears back...
Wahoo, Indeed

Wahoo, Indeed

The famed angler hooks into a species he later said made him “seem like an amateur.”