Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolff

 

Hunters in the Snow

by Tobias Wolff

Tub had been waiting for an hour in the falling snow. He paced the sidewalk to keep warm and stuck his head out over the curb whenever he saw lights approaching. One driver stopped for him but before Tub could wave the man on he saw the rifle on Tub's back and hit the gas. The tires spun on the ice.

Her Dog By Tobias Wolff

Illustration by Jillian Tamaki

 

Her Dog

By Tobias Wolff

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WHEN GRACE FIRST GOT Victor she and Joe walked him on the beach most Sundays. Then a chow chow bit some kid and the parks department restricted dogs to the slough behind the dunes. Grace took Victor there for years, and after she died Joe stepped in and maintained the custom, though he hated it back there. Mushy trail hedged with poison oak. Baking flats of cracked mud broken by patches of scrub. The dunes stifled the sea breeze, leaving the air still and rank and seething with insects.