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Kappa Hunter
"My name is Katsujiro Watanabe. Please call me Clint."
Stuart Graham is a hunter who isn't interested in killing things. He flees his office and hectic life in the city every chance he gets. Sitting alone in the wilderness, gazing up at the stars with a crackling fire warming his feet, is his idea of the perfect weekend. No cell phones, no email, no fluorescent lights.
But when a quirky Japanese man suddenly appears in his camp one evening, he's going to really wish he brought that cell phone.
Or at least more bullets.
PG (no excessive violence or graphic scenes)
6000 words, approx. 24 pages
Stuart Graham is a hunter who isn't interested in killing things. He flees his office and hectic life in the city every chance he gets. Sitting alone in the wilderness, gazing up at the stars with a crackling fire warming his feet, is his idea of the perfect weekend. No cell phones, no email, no fluorescent lights.
But when a quirky Japanese man suddenly appears in his camp one evening, he's going to really wish he brought that cell phone.
Or at least more bullets.
PG (no excessive violence or graphic scenes)
6000 words, approx. 24 pages
20 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 27, 2011
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August 30, 2011
Stuart may have a license to hunt, but all he really wants from his forest trip is a little peace and quiet. His paperwork says he’s hunting bear. The stranger who shares his fire is hunting kappa. And kappa is something Stuart has never heard of.
The forest may hold other dangers besides kappa and bear. Fishermen may be drunk. The kappa hunter may be mad. And anyone may be dangerous. But in J.K. Swift’s short story, Kappa Hunter, there’s a pleasing blend of peaceful forest, dark shadows, whispering campfire and sudden terror. Maybe the world’s a bigger place than it seems, and maybe the forest, not office work in town, offers a true view of reality.
Disclosure: I read the winning story Kappa Hunter in the short story section of the Dan Poynter Global eBook Awards.
The forest may hold other dangers besides kappa and bear. Fishermen may be drunk. The kappa hunter may be mad. And anyone may be dangerous. But in J.K. Swift’s short story, Kappa Hunter, there’s a pleasing blend of peaceful forest, dark shadows, whispering campfire and sudden terror. Maybe the world’s a bigger place than it seems, and maybe the forest, not office work in town, offers a true view of reality.
Disclosure: I read the winning story Kappa Hunter in the short story section of the Dan Poynter Global eBook Awards.
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