That's another tricky one.

Thomas King. "The One About Coyote Going West."

Oh, orality - this story is written as if spoken, which is initially jarring yet also enormously engaging and enjoyable, not to mention its cyclical nature - of Coyote remaining on her quest to change the world, to 'fix' it. This is a very mythic short story that eludes formality in the academic sense and instead moves into an othered narrative space where there is a complicated sytem of framing taking place as stories are told by the narrator to the Coyote and back again, and these stories begin to intrude into the relative 'reality' of the short story.

Story-telling becomes a powerful process as it relates to the ability of the narrator to warn Coyote and turn to try to save the world from Coyote's method of 'fixing' it. The stories are ultimately about Coyote herself, and the story-telling process becomes interactive as she responds to what is being said, at times attempting to alter the story. Yet in this interactive process a larger, subtle metaphor emerges of the interaction between author and reader-audience as the reader draws from the text interpretations that the author may or may not have intended. The struggle between the author and the audience produces the text as emerging from that 'Third Space' of signification, where the author's intention and the audience's interpretation collide. It is also a playful sort of act, a way to generate a dynamic discourse of the nature of storytelling, and of 'authenticity'.