

As Frank and Tub attempt to get the wounded Kenny to a hospital, a series of events further reveals the tenuousness of the friendships between the men. Kenny gets bad-tempered and shoots a dog, and when Tub thinks Kenny is about to turn the gun on him, he shoots Kenny.

There are tensions between the three men, and when the hunt goes badly-they fail to even catch sight of any deer-the trip takes an ugly turn. The story is about a group of three friends, Kenny, Frank, and Tub, who go on a hunting trip during a snowstorm in Spokane, Washington. The story is also available in Wolff's Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories (2008) and The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories (1987), edited by Daniel Halpern. In the British edition of this collection, published in 1982, Hunters in the Snow is the title story. It was published in Wolff's first collection of stories, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, in 1981. Hunters in the Snow is a short story by American writer Tobias Wolff.
