#706 Sixty Acres- Raymond Carver
This is a little slice of Americana type of story, taking place somewhere in a frontier setting on reservation and allocated to Native Americans. Lee Waite sits on his sixty acre plot and gets a familiar phone call from a neighbor. Somebody has been illegally shooting on his land probably poaching ducks. He doesn’t much care about it, and is more annoyed at the bother of the phone call than the trespassers, but he drags himself outside and goes to check it out.
He catches two kids with killed ducks, his ducks. Recently other neighbors have shot and killed poachers on their and, and it seems to be their prerogative. Lee doesn’t want to shoot anybody, and lets the kids go after he takes the ducks. He ponders his past and the future of his land. It’s a slow and sleepy kind of pace around here. As long as everyone knows their place, there should be no more problems.
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