Tobi Pledger

Tobi Pledger is an emerging writer. As a veterinary student at Texas A&M, she spent time in a Texas prison—helping care for the pigs and cattle. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has been published in Catamaran, and The Sun.

SWIMMERS by Tobi Pledger

Doc Raeford lifted the tail and stepped back to avoid the torrent of steaming bull shit. After the last wink of the bull’s anus, he leaned forward and pushed the electroejaculator probe into the rectum, completing the docking maneuver. “Bull’s eye.” Mike would never have imagined that he’d enjoy helping a veterinarian anally penetrate a two-thousand-pound Angus bull, but he did. Raeford shrugged. “It’s a gift.” The bull resisted the intrusion, lunging forward, shoving his chest against the gate of the squeeze chute with a jolt. His nostrils flared, flecks of foamy mucus blowing out on the exhale. The Texas…

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