Quilaq

By: Rebecca Burns

Narrated by: Janelle Bennett

Stokeland. It sits at a fork between two roads, one a thick, commercial highway bedeviled by ice for 90 percent of the year; the other a stripped, frozen weave of a road, impassable for 10 months out of 12 and huddled beneath wedges of brilliant white snow. It is a wonder that Stokeland has any inhabitants at all; but it does, over a hundred souls.

Angie, barmaid, too fond of the drink she serves. Gerry, the ancient trapper who has spent too long sleeping in the snow. Frank, teller of tales. Jack and Connor, bound to each other and to a shared life they cannot fulfill. Hettie and Ernest, driven by hunger.

Seeking answers in the cold tundra of the Arctic North, the Stokeland folk are drawn together by the power of one strange, unsettling word - Quilaq.

©2020 Rebecca Burns (P)2020 Rebecca Burns