‹‹ Alibi V.22 No.11 • March 14-20, 2013 ››

From the Foxhole

Sick of Killing

a squirrel's death in the mountains

By Alex E. Limkin

i was driving in the mountains at dawn. there were spots of ice and snow. i spotted two dark lumps in the road that looked like chunks of ice that had fallen off the bottom of a truck. i slowed down. then the chunks moved, just slightly, and i realized, now less than 50m away, that the chunks of ice were in fact a pair of squirrels.