This verse play for voices originally appeared in the periodical Northward Journal (#25, 1982) published by Penumbra Press.
It is based on the true story of John Hornby, a self-proclaimed wilderness expert, who took two young men anxious to learn about survival in the North to spend the long winter of 1926-1927 in the isolated, "barren lands" of the Northwest Territories. The expected spring caribou migration failed to pass their camp, and Hornby, deluded about his ability to live off the land, had not brought adequate provisions. This original story is transformed by what a Quill & Quire reviewer kindly called my "precise and elegant" style into a disturbing psychological drama—one played out on a distant planet in a distant time.
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