American Treehound

Category Stories

Lights Beyond the Pines — Chapter 1

A friend of mine, I’ll call Clay, owns 2,800 acres of South Carolina gold, the kind of land a man doesn’t really own so much as borrow for a while. Mature oaks, hickories, and pines intermingled to form an overhead highway of branches, mixed with briar…

Midnight Fence Line

A powerful East Texas storm turns a routine coon hunt on Jake’s ranch into a long night of busted fences, wandering cattle, lurking cyotes, and rising danger. But when an unexpected rifle shot cracks through the darkness, Jake realizes the storm may not be the biggest threat out there.

Pointing Right At You, Chapter 1

You ever get that feeling, out in the woods, that somebody’s watching—but you can’t quite tell from where? I don’t mean the kind that hits when you realize the log has eyes. I mean the quiet kind, the kind that…