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Hungry bears chase people down mountains, a new Ice Age destroys a small town, and rampaging sheep tackle farmers in this collection of 24 stories and essays (some funny, some tragic) about America's open spaces and wild places.
Enjoy tales about bears, bugs, bicycles, fish, farms and the strangest creatures of all (human beings) in the best of Eric Pinder’s previously published (and one award-winning) essays and short stories.
Contents
FOREWORD Edward Abbey hates forewords. Nobody reads them.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES Enjoy some political humor during the New Hampshire Primary
ICE It’s cold. It’s coming. A new Ice Age devours Millinocket, Maine.
A PURR-FECT STORM Meet the cats of Mount Washington
REFLECTIONS A nature poem
SCHRODINGER’S REJECTION SLIP Writing for a living isn’t rocket science....it’s quantum physics. (Humor)
PEEKING BEHIND THE PAGE Weasels on the mind, and bugs in the breakfast bowl
POEM Pithy wisdom or pretentious poetry? You decide.
REGARDING MR. SANDERS A small town grows larger (fiction)
THE UNIVERSE IN MY BACKYARD Lightning bugs and stargazing
SHEEP FOOTBALL Boy are sheep dumb
LOOKING UP Enjoy the view from Mount Washington
THE POET BEHIND THE TELESCOPE Milton and Galileo take a gander at the sky
AN EYE FOR DETAIL Don’t feed the tourists!
BEAR WITH ME Cycling humor
TWO WHEELS GOOD Commuting by bicycle: a sad lament
UP, UP AND AWAY A superhero on a bike
ARMCHAIR TRAVELERS Book reviews
THE CAT WITH TEN LIVES Neither truck nor tractor can stop this cat on the prowl
VARIOUS THUMPING ARGUMENTS How not to ride a horse to Canada
A FARMER’S ALMANAC Murder and mischief on a farm in Bennington, Vermont
CLUELESS A mock murder mystery
A MORNING FOR ARTISTS AND PREACHERS Fiction
LONELY STANZA A sad poem. Andrew Salkey liked this one.
WAVES How’s the water? An empty beach.
FISHERMAN’S BANE Fiction
POSTSCRIPT
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