Reincarnated Coyote
by S. Strunk

Okay the short and sweet version. Last deer gun season in Ohio my family was putting on a drive at one of the farms we hunt when we heard my brother shoot....KABOOOOM. We radioed, "Did you get him?" and he replied, "Yeah it was a coyote."

When we all met up after the drive he came walking across the field with the coyote draped across his shoulders like a scarf displaying his wonderful kill. Well, he stood there recalling the story of where the coyote was when he shot and how he dropped it in its tracks. As he finished the story to our amazement the coyote lifted his head and looked at us. A few girl-like screams and a bunch of grown men scrambled as we realized the coyote was not dead but was still very much alive. My brother almost wet his pants when he looked over and was staring face the face with his "dead" coyote! How he didn’t get bit I will never know. We still laugh about that to this day.