Heat and Horror in Africa - A Story

This story is a first-person, detailed account of a safari taken by a hunter and the author through the Kenyan savanna. The atmosphere is arid, hot, dusty and aimless. The story concludes with a horrible event, when the two discover an isolated hut in the midst of the hunting district, containing the remains of an employee of the company for which they both worked; the body had been devoured by the man's dogs. The event's purposelessness and irony are rooted in the fact that the employee had surrounded himself with watchdogs as a defense against the thieves active in the area. These very dogs killed him; the thieves never came. The man had apparently been hurt accidentally and lost consciousness; the dogs, after days without food, had attacked him. The main body of the story recounts this journey and its sad end.