Name that Short Story? (Maybe J. London?)

[Ipsey]

Years ago I was reading a short story anthology, and I read a story that's haunted me. I think it was by Jack London, but I may be completely wrong.

 

Three (I think) buddies are out hunting in the boonies. They're drunk and stupid, not really hunting because it may be night time, maybe just shooting at stuff. Anyway, they shoot one of their friends, but the men are a bit too dulled by alcohol to take it very seriously. One of the men keeps thinking about pancakes that he wants to eat the next morning. Anyway, they finally get their wounded buddy into the truck and start trundling out of the woods, but the reader gets the impression that the man is going to die, as one of the other men is still in his stupor and thinking about the pancakes.

 

*shudders*

 

Can anyone place this?

 

TIA!

[kalanamak]

*shudders*

 

Can anyone place this?

 

TIA!

 

Doesn't sound like Jack London

[Classical Country Mama]

Is it "Hunters in the Snow"?

 

http://www.americanliterature.com/Wolff/SS/HuntersintheSnow.html

[Ipsey]

Is it "Hunters in the Snow"?

 

http://www.americanliterature.com/Wolff/SS/HuntersintheSnow.html

 

 

YESYESYES!!

Thanks so much!

I had most of it wrong, but you pinned it!

Thanks so much.

 

I don't know why I thought it was London--I think I was reading a bunch of London at the time I was reading this anthology--maybe that, and this piece is by Tobias Wolff. . .and when I think of Wolves I think of London. . .hee. I don't know. One of those funny brain mix-ups.

 

Thanks a TON! I can't wait to read this again. It's been nearly 20 years!