(urth) Short Story 42: An Article About Hunting

[Jeff Wilson]

On 7/31/2012 4:12 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:

> “Salt water from an oil drilling operation had killed fifty or a hundred
> acres of timber here, and his back was protected by a huge dead oak. … I
> raised my camera for a picture, and as I did so I could see from the
> expression of despair that crossed that coal black face that he believed
> it to be a gun.His look of relief when the camera made only a harmless
> click was quite comic. “

> This ecological bent reveals itself in several other works – the primary
> mystery here is “what’s the deal with that bear?”He seems to mistake a
> camera for a gun in horror and when the narrator is surprised by the
> bear in his little hiding place he at first believes the face is human,
> but distorted.

Could it be an ape?



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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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