S. Earl Wilson III 
The Possum Hunter 

This is a tale of life, defining everything that we are and hope to become, such as finding love, education, success, and security by overcoming adversities to find happiness. It begins with simple people who find love in the remote areas of Mississippi while hunting raccoons together. They are simple people with simple lives doing simple things. We all lust, we hunger, we suffer, we enjoy. At times, we are deceived. Sometimes, we learn the truth that is often concealed but is revealed to us by someone of higher intellect.

We love, we play, we fight, and we rescue and are rescued. Regardless of others’ opinions, we eat what we like. We hunt even if it is nothing more than a bargain at a store. We are all victims of in flagrante delicto—the act of doing something wrong, especially like having illicit sex. You will perhaps find your own self while reading this story.

About the author

S. Earl Wilson, III comes from a family of educators. His father, a Morehouse College honor graduate, was a high school principal while his mother taught English. He was born and raised in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta in 1955. He was the first African-American to get a master’s degree in science from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1970. He has taught science both in Mississippi and Rockland County, New York, for a total of forty years. During those years of teaching, he has also coached baseball, football, basketball, tennis, girls fast-pitch softball, wrestling, track, soccer, and volleyball. He attributes his tireless working habits as “taking after his daddy.”