Gun

Snapper

The boy and his father have come to the Nishnabotna bottoms because no one owns it and they can walk there because no one owns it. They park the pickup near the bridge and step out, then see a snapping turtle in the road. Its shell is cracked. It moves its legs but cannot move. The boy observes that people should watch where they are going they should not run over animals. The father looks down the road that narrows to nothing on its way toward town. He draws his pistol from the holster at his hip, aims and ...

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