Padre

By David Cabela

Sometimes we avoid going home because the strained relationships we have neglected seem too distant, too neglected to be reconciled. Jim had taken the first step, but still resisted. Then, a chance encounter with a wounded buck led to a new relationship and a better understanding of who he was and where he needed go.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cabela Books
• Release date: Oct 15, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393338666

David Cabela

David Cabela was born and raised in western Nebraska, where rolling plains and wide open spaces gave him ample room to explore. This early introduction to the outdoors forever left him in search of new adventures. He is the author of five books including Cabela's: World's Foremost Outfitter; Two Hearts One Passion; Two Hearts in Tanzania; as well as numerous national magazine features.

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This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

PADRE

First edition. October 15, 2020.

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Jim knelt by the old creek bed, barely a trickle now after seven years of drought. He listened to the creek’s melody—its vibrancy and life had waned since he had last seen it. Now, it seemed to cling to a time he barely remembered.

The mountain remained still, heavy, and dark, as it always would be. The deer tracks stamped evidence of their existence in the moist soil where water once flowed more than five feet deep. Jim had hooked many brookies from that hole. Few anglers disturbed the water that far from town. It was too shallow now to wet a line.

Jim stared at the glistening water. Home. Memories rushed back like a waterfall. Would it remember him? He used to hunt elk just over the pass and mule deer—he had missed the mule deer most. It was all whitetails down south, down where he left Emily. He would never go back there. Too much betrayal, too many lies. He couldn’t face it anymore. He had loved her. He knew that. But forgiveness came hard for him.