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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsJackalope Wives, a story by Ursula Vernon
http://www.apex-magazine.com/jackalope-wives/ At the link is a podcast link if you want to hear it read.I happened onto to it today and loved it. It reminded me of selkies, the mythical beings from Irish and Scottish folklore who are half human and half seal.
Excerpt:
The moon came up and the sun went down. The moonbeams went shattering down to the ground and the jackalope wives took off their skins and danced.
They danced like young deer pawing the ground, they danced like devils let out of hell for the evening. They swung their hips and pranced and drank their fill of cactusfruit wine.
They were shy creatures, the jackalope wives, though there was nothing shy about the way they danced. You could go your whole life and see no more of them than the flash of a tail vanishing around the backside of a boulder. If you were lucky, you might catch a whole line of them outlined against the sky, on the top of a bluff, the shadow of horns rising off their brows.
And on the halfmoon, when new and full were balanced across the saguaros thorns, theyd come down to the desert and dance.
The young men used to get together and whisper, saying they were gonna catch them a jackalope wife. Theyd lay belly down at the edge of the bluff and look down on the fire and the dancing shapes and theyd go away aching, for all the good it did them.
The story might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I found it enchanting.
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Jackalope Wives, a story by Ursula Vernon (Original Post)
frogmarch
Jun 2015
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panader0
(25,816 posts)1. I've got lots of jackalopes around here.
frogmarch
(12,162 posts)2. Me too, but
I left most of them back in Wyoming when I moved to Nebraska.
Wolf Frankula
(3,605 posts)3. And Here's a Group of Basselopes
Be careful around basselopes. You could get slurped.
Wolf
frogmarch
(12,162 posts)4. :-)
I want one. At least one.
hunter
(38,354 posts)5. Excellent!
Thank you for posting this.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)6. Shopping at the local Jackalope is always fun.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)7. That's nice
Very lyrical.