DM2015
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Marcus was up before dawn to check the traps, both in the river and on the land. The catch was pretty miserable: one six inch trout in the weir, and a skinny little rabbit in the snare. He gutted them both and -- with the exception of the hare's heart and liver -- used their innards to bait the crayfish traps, which for reasons he couldn't grasp had been empty three days in a row. Marcus couldn't know that a raccoon had discovered the traps and figured out how to pull the catch to the side and eat them right through the wire.
He headed back to the camp, expecting to find his sister at the fire, cooking what ever she'd foraged from the forest while he hunted. The woods were full of edible mushrooms, berries, nuts, roots, and flowers; and -- after having found a pack full of Wildwood Survival books in a pack on a corpse weeks earlier -- Marcus had tasked his only living relative with learning how to distinguish Mother Nature's gifts and duplicate his own efforts in preventing them from starving.
But when he got back to the camp, he found her instead still in her sleeping bag, partaking of the warmth as she read from a magazine they'd found in a burned out gas station. In an instant, his blood began to boil and he felt his face heat up.
"What the hell?" he hollered, startling her. He tossed the day's catch into the frying pan sitting idle next to the dying fire and snatched the magazine from her hands. He shook it at her and chastised, "This ain't gonna feed us, you stupid, lazy bitch!"
He tossed it onto the small flames, causing a cloud of ashes and sparks to fill the early morning air. He turned back to what would become the midday meal and ordered, "Get up!"
Marcus was up before dawn to check the traps, both in the river and on the land. The catch was pretty miserable: one six inch trout in the weir, and a skinny little rabbit in the snare. He gutted them both and -- with the exception of the hare's heart and liver -- used their innards to bait the crayfish traps, which for reasons he couldn't grasp had been empty three days in a row. Marcus couldn't know that a raccoon had discovered the traps and figured out how to pull the catch to the side and eat them right through the wire.
He headed back to the camp, expecting to find his sister at the fire, cooking what ever she'd foraged from the forest while he hunted. The woods were full of edible mushrooms, berries, nuts, roots, and flowers; and -- after having found a pack full of Wildwood Survival books in a pack on a corpse weeks earlier -- Marcus had tasked his only living relative with learning how to distinguish Mother Nature's gifts and duplicate his own efforts in preventing them from starving.
But when he got back to the camp, he found her instead still in her sleeping bag, partaking of the warmth as she read from a magazine they'd found in a burned out gas station. In an instant, his blood began to boil and he felt his face heat up.
"What the hell?" he hollered, startling her. He tossed the day's catch into the frying pan sitting idle next to the dying fire and snatched the magazine from her hands. He shook it at her and chastised, "This ain't gonna feed us, you stupid, lazy bitch!"
He tossed it onto the small flames, causing a cloud of ashes and sparks to fill the early morning air. He turned back to what would become the midday meal and ordered, "Get up!"