Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner

Author:Seth Kantner
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2010-06-02T16:00:00+00:00

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A WIND BLOWS SNOW SOUTH, a wall of stinging grains of ice riding into the sky the length of the mountain range. Wolves hide out in the willows of a creek. They wade the deep snow, sniff rabbit trails, chew feathery meatless ptarmigan wing tips abandoned by foxes. They haven’t killed a moose in weeks. The big male is dead, shot, the naked carcass windswept and partially drifted on the ice at the mouth of the creek. Occasionally, at night, wolves visit the site. Ravens have picked the eyes and back fat and streaked the area with poop. Two steel traps are set there, too deep, chained under the snow.

The remains of a second pack join the first. The leaders also have been shot. Social order, and the feud for territory, for now, are dead. Wind gusts overhead. Snow sifts down. Yips and howls sing here and there in the trees. Hormones commandeer blood and all the mature wolves mate.

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