LJ Idol Week 5 - When We Were Hunting Rabbits

[abigailendersby]

In the dead of winter they're a flash of white on white, a blur of kicking legs and twitching ears and coal-black eyes weaving among the stick-thin birch trunks and wind-crested snowdrifts. Sometimes you only see the hints of their rapid departure, the miniature flurries of snow kicked from low-lying branches and the quiver of underbrush, the tiny

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[dreamsofspike]

This is... incredibly disturbing.

And I mean that in the best possible way. ;)

Very nicely done. :)

[abigailendersby]

Thank you so much! Disturbing is something I like to think I can do at least semi-decently, so your comment means a lot <3 <3

[kagomeshuko]

Hunting rabbits? No thanks. Closest I've come to hunting is fishing and I don't really enjoy that, either. I'm allergic to seafood (enough so that it makes me feel sick - but thankfully the majority of it won't actually HURT me, just make me sick).

You know what they say - Rabbits' feet are lucky for people, but the rabbits weren't so lucky.

[abigailendersby]

It's definitely not for everybody. I grew up in a hunting and fishing family (always for food, never for sport) and just became accustomed to it over the course of my childhood. I do have a mental block against killing rabbits, though, for lots of reasons.

Yeah, I never understood the rabbit foot thing, to be honest.

Thanks for reading!

[kagomeshuko]

I'm not against hunting for food. I understand it. I just don't want to do it. I'm one of those "If I meet it, I don't want ot eat it." I don't want my food to be personal at all . . .

[abigailendersby]

I have a good friend who says that if it has eyelashes, she won't eat it. :) To be honest, I'm not that big into the idea of hunting - for food or sport - at all anymore. It gets old fast... (or did to me at least)

[abigailendersby]

Thank you so much! :D

[adoptedwriter]

Happy Easter! LOL
AW

[abigailendersby]

*cracks up* I totally woke up my husband laughing at this, you are awesome. XD

[veronica_rich]

I grew up in the middle of people like this, so I know what you meant; needs must, even if not always pleasant. Good reversal of the prompt.

[abigailendersby]

It's definitely strange, having grown up like this and living now in a large city where most people have never even so much as fished, much less caught and cleaned their own kills. Sometimes I wonder if my childhood was just some sort of strange dream.

Thank you for taking the time to read. :)

[veronica_rich]

I had pet rabbits between the ages of 8-11 that I kept at the grandparents' farm. When we moved I couldn't take them with me, and who would I sell them to, so I sold them to Grandpa. Later, I knew the source of the fried rabbit Grandma made from the freezer - but it still tasted good, no matter how sort-of regretful I felt. C'est sera sera.