The Oxbow Wolves

By DB Jackson

The Oxbow Wolves is a story of the struggle between a small wilderness family and a pack of displaced wolves, both looking to survive in a hard environment where there is only room for one or the other. The final conflict comes down to a standoff between the mother of two small children and the matriarch of the wolf pack, both willing to fight to the death to protect their offspring. The final resolution is a heart-rending denouement that could only be reached by two strong mothers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DB Jackson
• Release date: Apr 2, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463989975

DB Jackson

Award winning novelist and screenwriter.

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T H E O X B O W W O L V E S

A Short Story

Copyright 2019 DB Jackson

Published by DB Jackson at Smashwords

ISBN 978-0-463-98997-5

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Books by DB Jackson

SMALL MOVING PARTS – A novel set in 1958 West Texas. Literary fiction.

A BAND OF UNBROKE HORSES – A reissue of the award winning novel, UNBROKE HORSES.

WIND RIVER INCIDENT – The screenplay reissued version of the award winning novel, THEY RODE GOOD HORSES.

HALF PAST NINE – A short story and inspiration for a feature film of the same name.

THE COLLECTOR – A short story.

THE OXBOW WOLVES – A short story.

BLOOD RED MOON – A short story.

THE OUTRIDER – A short story.

THE BUFFALO RUNNERS – A short story.

THE OXBOW WOLVES

Alas how hard it is to say what it was like, this savage and sharp and strong forest, which even in thought renews my fear.

—Dante Alighieri, Dante’s Inferno

FIRST COMES THE COLD, then the wind, and everything is cast in darkness. They slip in under cover of the storm-blown snow and the moonless night—a thin-ribbed pack of timber wolves, yellow-eyed and panting. They cross the drifts into the calving pens, lay waste to the babies yet to suckle and drag off the newborns in their bloody jaws while the mothers watch.

Come daylight, black clouds roil in against the granite peaks like an armada of phantom ships thundering rudderless overhead. Inside a small cabin hewn of logs and chinked with riverclay, a man, a woman, and