Guy Vanderhaeghe lives in Saskatchewan. He is the author of My Present Age and of a collection of short stories, Man Descending, which received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and, in Canada, the Governor-General’s Award for fiction.
It was early morning, so early that Gil MacLean loaded the colt into the truck box under a sky still scattered with faint stars. The old man circled the truck once, checking the tail gate, the tyres, and the knot in the halter shank, tottering around on legs stiff as stilts, shoulders hunched to keep the chill off him. He was 69 and mostly cold these days.
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