Scared & Looking For a Place to Happen: A short story duo

Two Short Stories Based on Themes from the Music of the Tragically Hip.
(You don’t need to know the music.)

SCARED
A psychological roller-coaster, as a fear consultant “entertains” a new client.

LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO HAPPEN
Étienne Brûlé, the famed first of the coureurs du bois (‘runners of the woods’), the 17th century French explorers and traders of wild Canada, faces death among the Bear tribe of the Huron Indians, and debates his life’s value with a French priest.