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THE INSIDE STORY by Jane
Wodening
"Jane's stories are better than Deuteronomy - green as grass, clean as huckleberries." - Merrill Gilfillan "Her imagery, her humor and uncanny insights so draw the reader into her world we can't help but feel the love and compassion that infuse her writing . . . Few writers today write such clean prose, none have such purity of vision." - Lucia Berlin "Jane Wodening is a storyteller by the grace of the gods . . . and we can bet the gods love a good chuckle too." - Anselm Hollo From DANCING ELK "And then there was the time I went to the zoo and danced with that tule elk cow. I just love to dance and I've had some great times dancing, but that time there was no music, just the elk and me with a fence between, and somehow it was the greatest dance ever for me. She trotted up to the fence and looked at me with that look, like when the music starts up and people look at each other and then get up to dance, kind of a bright, questioning, energetic look, so then we were off, skipping and prancing and bowing and turning this way and that, watching each other, all down the fence, back and forth. It was complicated by the difference in the number of legs each of us had, but what we did about that, we made up steps and manners, each taking into account what the other couldn't do. For instance, I couldn't run fast and she couldn't pick up the two-step. We kept a close eye on each other through the fence and held our heads high mostly except when we were doing a dip, and there was quite a bit of skipping and hopping and pirouetting. It was really going good and spectators were gathering around from all over the Zoo, but I didn't care. One mustn't get self-conscious and ruin a rare and magical thing." From THE INSIDE STORY by Jane Wodening |