Humans have despoiled Come Along Slough’s habitat, endangering the survival of the animals who live there. Food is scarce. In an effort to fight chronic hunger, a shaky alliance of carnivores and herbivores creates a governmental body called the United Slough of Animals. The USA imposes strict eating quotas, but Coyote and Elrod the Stoat are shameless scofflaws and don’t want Big Government meddling with their natural right to eat their fill of Rabbits. Only “trickle down gastronomics” works for them. Owl, Muskrat, River Otter, Crow, Raccoon, Hummingbird, Squib Dog, and many other animals try to respect the rules, but after the Rats invade Come Along Slough, the USA slides into deeper crisis.
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Author’s Statement
High Noon on Come Along Slough is an animal allegory—or book-length fable. The animal characters laugh and cry. They speak like humans. Human virtues and vices shape thoughts and govern actions. In writing my book, no real animals were injured or killed.
“How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.”