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Logan Pierce waits for a specific heat signature while carefully managing exposure, tracking movement through a thermal scope. When the forest shifts “wrong,” an enormous bipedal creature appears, moving with deliberate control. Logan fires a long-range shot, then follows strict protocol while the snowfall erases every trace of the encounter.","FREE Short Story – Bigfoot: Hunger  \nA remote cabin. A snowstorm. And something starving in the woods.  \nFrom Ethan Blackwood comes a chilling standalone tale in the Shadows in the Timberline universe.  \nGrab it free on BookFunnel  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n1  \nCLEAN KILL  \nThe snow fell in vertical sheets, heavy and windless, the kind of snowfall that erased the world in layers. First the ridgelines dissolved, then the middle distances went soft, and finally the timber below became a pale suggestion of itself, as though the mountains were being slowly unmade by something patient and enormous. Logan Pierce lay prone at the edge of a granite shelf fourteen hundred feet above the valley floor, his body pressed into six inches of fresh powder, his breathing so controlled that the condensation from each exhale barely fogged the rear lens of his thermal scope before dissipating into the frozen air.  \nHe had been in this position for four hours. His core temperature had dropped two degrees. His fingers, inside layered gloves rated to forty below, had begun the slow transition from numb to painful that told him he had another ninety minutes before fine motor function became unreliable. None of this concerned him. He had done this before. He had done this many times.  \nThe thermal scope painted the world in gradients of heat against cold, reducing the forested slope below to a ghostly palette of blues and blacks interrupted by the faint amber signatures of living things. A Roosevelt elk had crossed the drainage an hour ago, its body a warm smear drifting through the trees at the unhurried pace of an animal that did not know it was being observed. Two coyotes had passed along the opposite ridge twenty minutes later, their small bright shapes trotting in single file toward whatever had died in the night. Logan noted them the way he noted all movement, cataloguing trajectory and speed and thermal mass in the automatic shorthand of a man whose survival had depended, for over a decade, on the ability to distinguish between what mattered and what did not. The elk did not matter. The coyotes did not matter. What mattered was  \nthe signature he had been sent to find, and for four hours the forest had offered him nothing that matched.  \nThen the trees moved wrong.  \nIt was not wind. Wind disturbed canopy from the top down, a rolling motion that began at the crown and traveled through the branches in diminishing waves . What Logan saw through the scope was displacement from below, a lateral shudder that passed through the understory at roughly waist height on a man, bending saplings and shaking snow from boughs in aline that traveled north to south across the drainage at a speed no elk or bear could sustain through timber that dense. He tracked the disturbance for eight seconds, adjusting the scope's magnification, waiting for the source to clear the tree line at the drainage's far edge where the slope opened into a narrow avalanche chute. His trigger finger, which had rested along the guard in a straight line for four hours, curled inward and found the cold crescent of steel.  \nThe shape emerged from the timber at the chute's lower margin, and even through the thermal scope, even after eleven prior operations, the scale of it tightened something in Logan's chest that was not entirely professional. The signature was enormous. Bipedal. Upright. Moving with a stride that covered ground in lengths that would have required Logan to jog to match. The heat bloom suggested a body mass well over six hundred pounds, concentrated in the torso and shoulders in a distribution that was not consistent with any catalogued species in the Pacific Northwest or anywhere else in North America. It moved with its head slightly forward and its arms swinging in counterbalance, not the lumbering gait of a great ape but something more fluid, more deliberate, as though each step was chosen rather than simply taken. 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