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Kaplan deliberately leaves the answer ambiguous. What is clear, however, is that Andy will never be the same. The “doe season”—both the hunting season and the season of her girlhood—has irrevocably ended.

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In the canon of American coming-of-age stories, few capture the brutal ambivalence of losing childhood as sharply as David Michael Kaplan’s “Doe Season.” First published in The Iowa Review in 1984 and later included in his collection Comfort , the story has become a staple in classrooms and literary circles—not because it offers easy lessons, but because it refuses to look away from the messiness of growing up. Doe Season By David Michael Kaplan Full Text

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“He cut around the anus, then reached in and pulled out the intestines, blue and glistening, and laid them on the snow.” Kaplan deliberately leaves the answer ambiguous

—Paraphrased from “Doe Season,” David Michael Kaplan.