Tom Lake is the pen name of a writer misses home he has known near Spruce Knob and Brushy Fork in West Virginia. He teaches undergraduate composition and business writing, but sometimes wonders what it would be like to teach caving and steam ecology again. His writings have been or will be in Indiana Review, Gulf […]
Tom Lake
Tom Lake: Shooting the Last Buffalo
Sweaty, and panting, and raucous, quick to jibe, the crowd teems, breaks apart, and amasses again. Two farmers, brothers and neighbors, then five, then nine. Word spills to cousins of assorted degree, black-eyed wives. Some run ahead with the ribby hounds. Some bring scrapers, crocks, knives, jars, and bags, that they might catch every part: hide, organ, sinew, […]