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A Yukon Short Story

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As you may or may not have noticed from my Facebook photo posts of a double rainbow and big skies, I've spent the summer in the Yukon - mostly in and around Dawson City. The local arts and culture scene in this tiny Canadian town is pretty extraordinary, and this weekend is the annual arts festival, which kicked off today with the announcement of the winners of the Authors on Eighth writing contest - for one poem and one short story, under 2500 words, in the style of Yukon authors Jack London, Robert Service, and Pierre Berton, which addressed the theme "Women of the North." I wrote this short story two months ago to submit to the contest, and am very excited to say that it won! I am now the slightly stunned owner of a stack of fantastic Yukon books and a gold nugget. But the best thing I will take away from this experience is the pride of having written something outside my comfort zone, in a style that's much more subtle than I usually know how to be, and whi