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In winterkill the story starts of depressing and explaining how the narrarator and Harley Reeves have both been laid off from their jobs. Then he goes to the bar and notices a girl who is there and his friend Troy just has to pick up on her and uses a corny pickup line. Troy is in a wheel chair due to a smoke jumper’s injury. The lady at the bar was named Nola. As the conversation carried on and got a little more personal troy invited Nola to go fishing with him and his friend. Nola agreed to go fishing and then get dinner. They made their way out to the river and Les and Nola began to talk about how cold it was and that led to Nola telling him to warm her up. Just before they were going to warm each other up they heard a weird noise and it was Troy struggling while fishing for some reason. It turns out that troy has snagged a big fish and the tension slowly pulled him out of the chair and he was slowly being dragged on his chest down by the water. Troy was saying that he caught the big one and he needed help. Troy pleaded with Les to help him catch the fish because he did not want to let it go. So Troy and Les struggled and pulled on the line as hard as they could for what seemed like minutes and they could not get it to budge. Les kept going farther out in the water until he got to where the line was snagged and he realized that it wasn’t even a fish and Troy had gotten his line caught on a dead deer. This did not make Troy happy at all because he always thought fishing was his thing and he just got tricked by a dead animal that shouldn’t have even been in the water. They all ended up going inside and having the chicken with wine and talked on throughout the night. Snagging the deer was a confidence killer for Troy. After that he watched Harley Reeves and his mother dance to end the night, he enjoyed seeing her happy. “And I thought about the matter of trust. That I would always lie if it would save someone an unhappiness. That was

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