The Drake

Killer Kitty

ON MOST EVENINGS, there she is, waiting for me on the porch. It doesn’t matter that it’s nearly ten o’clock and my stomach aches. I can see her gaze from across the alfalfa field as I trudge home from the river in my waders, a net and bag slung across my shoulder.

After cracking a beer and fixing a plate from leftovers on the

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