This little guy came home with me from Las Vegas in November. I picked it up at a huge souvenir store. The woman who sold it to me had actually lived in Toronto on Spadina Avenue several years earlier. Small world. I took this as a good omen and gave her my money.
She said the jackalope had been hanging on the wall behind her cash register for a while and she wanted to name it before she said goodbye. She said it looked like an Emma, which might mean this makes it an Emma-lope instead of a Jackalope.
I want to give little Emma-lope a proper first name. It is a jack rabbit with antlers, afterall, so I feel like it should it have some kind of badass name but I also want to honour the former Torontonian I got it from.
Can you help me out here? Submit your name ideas in the comments below, or email them to me if you've got some really juicy idea: lizworth [at] gmail dot com.
Whoever gives me the winning name will receive a copy of my new book, Amphetamine Heart, and my three chapbooks, Eleven: Eleven, Manifestations, and Arik's Dream.
Remember, if you leave your idea in the comments section, be sure to include your website or email address so I can contact you if you end up being the winner.
Contest closes Friday, December 16. Good luck!
That jackalope looks like a 'LaSalle' to me:
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I'm going to have to go with Jack-A-Dull-Boy from The Shining! Ooh! Spooky! :)
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