WARNING: Spoilers spoken here. 5 – The hunter’s tunic The votes are in, and although there was a strong minority in favor of the morel mushroom, in the end Arlene’s comment made the case for this fifth object. …It was made of caribou hide, tanned to ivory. Red, white and blue beads were worked around…
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ONE “I’ll get it,” Kate said, and fetched the Crisco forthwith. Auntie Vi eyed her. “Your auntie not that old, Katya.” “I know, auntie,” Kate said. “But I was closer.” She had, in fact, been in the next room at the time, but Auntie Vi, exercising monumental, not to mention unnatural restraint, forbore to comment.…
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After a twenty-year print hiatus, the fourth, fifth, and sixth Kate Shugak novels are back in print in the US! Click on the cover art above for buy links. In honor of this event, Aries had me write 500 words on the Kate Shugak series, as below. Enjoy! If I had been smart enough to…
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“Yuck!” The pool of slush covered the road from snow berm to snow berm and thirteen-year old Andrea Kvasnikof had just stepped in it up to her ankle and over the tops of her brand-new, white on white Nike Kaj. “Ms. Doogan! Ms. Doogan, my shoe’s all wet!” “This is where the leading edge of…
Mutt leapt up to the seat of the snow machine as Kate thumbed the throttle and together they roared twenty-five miles over unplowed road to Niniltna, four miles past the village to the ghost town of Kanuyaq, and up the rutted, icy path to the Step. There, Kate dismounted, postholed through the snow to the…
“Sit still,” Dinah said, yanking Kate’s head around by a fistful of hair. “Ouch!” Kate, wedged into Katya’s high chair, muttered something beneath her breath. “Stop whining,” Dinah said, no sympathy in face or voice. “It wasn’t my idea to give you a crew cut.” “It’s not a crew cut.” “It might as well be. …
