Guns formed me—there’s no denying it. They worked on my body, bruising it in all the right places. Recoil and report learned they couldn’t scare me off. Each weapon wrote angry truth on me.
Charles Dodd White lives in the mountains of western North Carolina. He is author of the novel Lambs of Men (2010), and the story collection Sinners of Sanction County (2011). His new novel, A Shelter of Others, will be published in 2014 by Fiddleblack Press. Visit www.charlesdoddwhite.me.