Hello and welcome to the Drapylcast, episode 4.

The Drapolcast is a weekly audio fiction magazine that brings strange stories by strange authors to

strange listeners such as yourself.

I'm your host, Norm Sherman.

On this week's show, The Creation and Evolution of Myths and Fables.

It's a bit of a long story for us, so I want to jump right in.

One thing I love about this story, though, is what it says about the overall idea of language, how it shapes culture,

how there was a time and it's almost unimaginable to imagine, but if you try to imagine such things it's

imaginable when we didn't have spoken language.

Forget written language that sure helped us out a lot but spoken language. What an essential thing it is to have a vast

and highly nuanced way to communicate with each other in groups. Among one of the

earliest things we then started doing with this ability, of course, was telling stories.

And with that we bring you the evolution of trickster stories among the dogs of North Park after the change by Kees Johnson.

Keesh has won the Nebula Award in three consecutive years for her short

stories Spar, Ponies, and the Devella, The Man Who Bridged the Mist.

The Man Who Bridged the Mist was also the World Fantasy Award winner and Asimov Reader's

Pole Award winner. Johnsonimov Reader's Poll Award winner.

Johnson served on the Theodore Sturgeon Award jury

from 1997 through 2012 and on the World Fantasy jury in 2014. The evolution of trickster stories among the dogs of North Park after the change

was originally published in the anthology Coyote Road Trixster Tales, edited by by Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling.

It was picked up for years best fantasy in horror, edited by Datlow, Kelly Link, and

Gavin J Grant.

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