Flash Fiction: Evinrude
© Tealia Ellis Ritter. Evinrude. from series Things We Burned. Gelatin Silver Print. Courtesy of the artist.
I hate killing fish.
Once when I was a kid I witnessed guy catch a gigantic fish that thrashed wildly in the bed of the boat and he had to club it to death. I mean, maybe letting it suffocate in the air would be worse. But beating up a fish? What the hell?
Anyway, I throw them back. On the big bend of the Connecticut river where my family is from, the bass swarm in the warm shallows. I catch them, and throw them back.
