"Swamp Creature" by Randell Jones
mud sucker
Not exactly the “Call of the Wild,” his summer job in Georgia 50 years ago was nonetheless a memorable learning experience which some might say still haunts him today. Still, if you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at? (This is the first of a story pair.)
Randell Jones lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is the author of several award-winning history books including In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone and Before They Were Heroes at King’s Mountain. Since 2007, he was served as an invited member of the Road Scholars Speakers Bureau of the North Carolina Humanities Council. He writes, speaks, and publishes as Daniel Boone Footsteps.