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stephen harlow
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  • Bigfoot, The Old Woods, and the Thing That Never Left

    In the deep hollers of Appalachia, where ridgelines fold in on themselves like a man clasping his hands in prayer, there has always been the understanding that the woods are not empty, and that understanding long predates the name “Big Foot,” long predates television specials, plaster casts, internet arguments, and men in clean boots wandering…

  • Animal Spotlight: The Bobcat, Seen Less Than It Sees

    There are animals people talk about often, and animals people actually see, and then there are animals like the bobcat, which exist mostly as evidence rather than presence. A track in soft ground, a flash of movement at timberline, a scream carried across a hollow at night; these are how most people encounter bobcats, indirectly,…

  • The Trapper’s Skill That Matters More Than the Trap: Reading Travel Before You Ever Set Steel

    Ask most people what trapping skill matters most, and they will talk about trap type, jaw spread, pan tension, or brand names. Those things matter, but they are secondary. Long before steel touches the ground, the most important trapping skill has already done its work, quietly and without recognition. That skill is reading travel, understanding…

  • APPALACHIAN POST – MARITIME FISHING REPORT

    Commercial Fisheries & Nearshore Operations Outlook Expanded Weekly Guidance BERING SEA (Crab, Groundfish, Industrial-Scale Operations) Marine Pattern Overview The Bering Sea remains locked in a high-energy winter pattern defined by strong pressure gradients, frequent wind events, expanding and shifting sea ice, and rapidly changing sea states. This is not a stable production environment; it is…

  • The Rifle That Changed the Sound of War: The Henry Repeating Rifle and the Birth of Modern Firepower

    In the middle years of the 19th century, warfare still sounded the way it had for generations. Black powder muskets boomed, smoke drifted thick across battlefields, and men stood shoulder to shoulder, loading from the muzzle with a measured ritual that every soldier knew by heart. Rate of fire was counted, not assumed. Ammunition was…

  • Two Riders West of Eden: episode 2- The Guardians of the Travelers. (Historical Fiction)

                “Look at them, Henry.” Said the gray-haired knight as he scoffed, looking down at a group of travelers on their way to Jerusalem.      “Pigs, the lot of them.” Said a handsome young man with a perfectly clean-shaven face and an aristocratic look, his long golden hair blowing in the wind.    “My father…

  • The Unidentified Attack: A Story from the Nightmare Series (Psychological Horror)

    This actually happened a little over 10 years ago, on a cool winter’s night in the woods of West Virginia. I want to say I was in my early 20s, and at the time, I had the habit of sleeping on the couch; I can remember that, throughout the day, I went outside several times.…

  • The Space Riders: episode 3- Mistaken Identity (Sci-Fi; Space Opera; Action Pulp)

    The Man’s name was Phoenix, he was a Major in the Space Riders organization and part of the secretive, elite, black-ops group, codenamed: The Knights.  Phoenix led the Knights alongside his friend and lover, a woman named Kiera, a beautiful young black woman with long dark hair; Kiera was also the Marshal, making her the…

  • Sunday Flash Fiction- High Stakes Haul: The Vegas Trucking Underworld; episode 3 – Bitter Meetings (Action-Crime Trucking Noir)

    Esteban smiled as he stared down at his phone, soaking in the numbers on the screen, a sense of comfort and relief setting in before the phone began to ring.    He frowned slightly, a feeling of satisfaction engulfing him as he answered the phone and heard the voice on the other side.    “You…

  • Casually Cryptid