Caribou (new story)
How I’ve been summarizing this story to people: “It’s a story about a girl from Venus who’s in love with a robot who doesn’t love her back, so she goes to Greenland to look for a man may have downloaded his mind into a reindeer.” The characters Katja & Pierre from an earlier story, Posthuman Playground (currently unavailable, as it’s being sent around to publishers right now), reappear as adults. The story was inspired by the Pixies song of the same title, which is quite possibly my favorite song.
Photo (pre-manipulation) from TYLER FLAUMITSCH (ARRKISMAN) VIA STOCK.XCHNG. And yes, I know they’re really moose antlers… But don’t they look awesome?
Hi,
they are ACTUALLY caribou antlers. They are in Colville lake and the antlers all come from Barren Land Caribou shot not far from the community. The man who made the antler tree is Bern Will Brown a living legend of the NWT. So you can tell all of the detractors that they can travel there and talk to the man and see them for themselves.
Mahsi (North Slavey for Thanks)
Thinking they were moose antlers was actually my own mistake, Tyler. And I’m doubly happy to know they’re from Barren Land caribou, as these are the exact kind I was writing about in the story (although the range of land I have them on isn’t where they would be in real life, far as I know). Thanks for writing in, and thanks for posting the photo!
Also, for anyone who’s curious, here’s a web site about Bern Will Brown.