This month the Unpublished Guy Fiction Panel discusses Becoming Coyote by Wayne Ude,
who happened to be my Creative Writing instructor at Old Dominion University.
This week two guests join the fiction panel.
Dr. Zaius: Coyotes, buffalos, horses, men, and an assortment of other animals, but not a single simian. Crazy stories and beliefs. Nothing that makes as much sense as the Lawgiver bringing the universe into being and then creating man in his own image from a durian fruit. What next, a story about rabbits with names like Hazel and Fiver searching for a new warren?
William Blake: Ude, Ude. burning bright. In the fiction of the night; What an existential void. Could I be stuck like a dissembled phonographic disc?
Coyote: I didn't care so much for the story about the reservation cop tracking Charlie before he killed the Swede's buffalo. What I really liked were the stories about Coyote. I loved hearing about how he tricked the tribe that had been mean to him by tricking the Chief's son into gay marriage. How he stole the Sun's leggings. How he created people out of stick figures and ants. How he freed all the buffalo from a family of buffalo ranchers. Coyote sure was clever.
Wayne Ude: How did I get here? How do I work this? Where is that world wide web? This is not my beautiful web site! This is not my surly orangutan! I'm not exactly sure where I am or what I am supposed to be doing. Help anyone?
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