Leading the parade.

The mythologies embedded in the West exert their own ironies and displacements, their own refusals and contingencies. In the short story that follows, I have set out to play with the master narrative of the much-mythologized Calgary Stampede, "The Greatest Show on Earth," and its most dangerous sport, the Chuckwagon Races.

This liminal story rides at the edge of this frontier and its narration, beyond the action of the real races, real danger, and real mythology as it might be encountered in the body of a woman whose family has been in "wagon racing" for ...

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