Michael Hicks was a Truman Capote Fellow at the University of Montana. His short fiction has appeared in BULL. He lives in Georgia and recently completed his first novel.
I start lucky. Two friends in Southeast Alaska have a permit and a boat and invite me to join them as a deckhand, gillnetting. For three summers, we share a bunk and work within a few feet of each other, coming back to Juneau most weekends...
