by Joshua Quong | Feb 12, 2021 | Stories
Several terms get bandied about throughout the discourse on hunting. One such term is the word ‘harvest’ which seems to have cropped-up and spread in conversations, publications, and media posts like buttercups in a hayfield. Though this term appears to...
by Joshua Quong | Jan 21, 2021 | Hunting Stories, Stories
One of the first words I ever learned to say was, “Duck.” My mother says I espied a framed print hanging on the wall at the pediatrician’s office. It was a scene of cupped mallards forever suspended in the azure skies above a reedy marsh to which I pointed and...
by Joshua Quong | Nov 20, 2020 | Hunting Stories, Stories
The Arthurian legends enthralled me as a kid… they still do. Don’t get me wrong, Nintendo, and Star Wars, and shooting snakes from a bridge or canoe were all legit, too. But King Arthur and all those knights doing knightly things like being polite to one another...
by Joshua Quong | Sep 23, 2020 | Fishing Stories, Stories
The Soque River is a narrow watershed that begins and ends in the mountains of northeast Georgia’s Habersham County. It is also a siren that sings to every fly fisherman who has ever had the fortune to hook one of her innumerable trout leviathans. It was my good...
by Joshua Quong | Sep 9, 2020 | Hunting Stories, Stories
In Seamus Heaney’s poem “Death of a Naturalist”, the speaker describes in vivid detail how his curiosity as a child about the bullfrogs living in a bog near his town morphs into the terror of being sucked down under the mire by the jellied spawn of the “mud grenades”....
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