Hans Island (2019)
three lines and speaker
I am fascinated by trivial matters that get blown way out of proportion. To me, few stories exemplify this better than the odd tale of Hans Island, an uninhabitable rock in the Arctic Sea.
Hans Island is dedicated to Kai Crull and Allison Damon.
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Since the writing of this piece there have been a resolution to the debate of the territorial status of Hans Island. I personally find it an unsatisfactory and uninteresting conclusion to the story. I will not be revising this work to accommodate the present reality, because the present reality doesn’t provide the opportunity for a funny ending.