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Kutter

As I walk through Fox Hollow Forest, winding up my day, I see tracks in the damp floor of the woods

Cougar tracks

Shit

It would be one thing if there were so around this part of the forest I can deal with those wild ass dogs — but cougars are bad for business Not that this is athe woods safe But families come out here to ca anyone wants is an animal attack when they’re on vacation

Sure, everyone understands it’s a re around will only cause trouble

Thankfully the sky has been heavy with rain clouds all week It’ll keep driving people away until I can deal with the cats Usually this is a beautiful ti off the beaten tracks has its perks — I can enjoy the great outdoors without running into many people

Why else would I have taken a job in the middle of nowhere? I was born in these woods, and I never plan to leave Noouldn’tthis slice of rural paradise with a woman, but most of the ones I meet — down at the one and only bar in a fifty- to ood tiht lead to a way out

But damn, I wish that weren’t the case Sometimes what I really crave is a wo er — literally And there is no woe

As I walk through the woods toward h It’s frohbor

Ja Reed and Jasper are co with their wives

I shoveto be reot Even if it’s not what I want, knowing they have woets me a little bitter

Okay, a whole lot bitter

I feel droplets of rain on my shoulder as I near the station, then a howl