Only the Dead by Vidar Sundstøl

Author:Vidar Sundstøl [Sundstøl, Vidar]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2014-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

HE JUST BARELY REGISTERED the vibrations against his numb thigh. He opened the pocket flap and took out his cell phone. It was Andy’s number on the display.

“Yep?” he said, but his voice was almost inaudible. He cleared his throat and tried again. “Hello?”

“I’m right below you,” said his brother.

“Good.”

“See anything?”

“Nothing. Did you?”

“Nothing,” said Andy.

“Hmm . . .”

“Well, I’ll be there in a sec.” Andy broke the connection before Lance could say anything more.

Lance leaned his rifle against a tree trunk and began flapping his arms. His brother soon emerged from the edge of the woods.

“Are you cold?” asked Andy when he came closer.

“Naw.”

Lance slung his rifle over his shoulder. They avoided looking each other in the eye.

“So you didn’t see anything?” he asked.

“No deer, in any case.”

“Something else?” said Lance.

“I don’t know . . .”

“What?”

“I saw a man,” said Andy.

“A man? Where?”

His brother looked at him. Lance thought he held his gaze a little too long, and finally he had to look away.

“Up on the ridge.”

“Well, at least he won’t cause any trouble up there.”

Andy looked like he wanted to say something more. He cleared his throat a few times and seemed about to speak. Instead he turned around, lifted his Minnesota Twins cap, and scratched his scalp. Then he put the cap back on.

“Not a single deer,” he said with his back turned to Lance.

“What should we do now?”

“Keep going,” said Andy.

“But where?”

Andy turned back to face him. “Between the highway and the lake. We’re allowed to do that, right?”

Lance wondered if he should lie, but that would just mean they’d have to go out again next weekend. They might as well be done with it now.

“Uh-huh. Our licenses include the area along the lake between the Temperance River and the Cross River.”

“I’m sure there’s gotta be some deer down there,” said Andy.

“But there’s also a greater risk we’ll run into tourists.”

“No, the weather’s too lousy. I think we’ll have the woods to ourselves. But first let’s eat. I’m hungry.”

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