Cities of the North is an unwritten short story, depicting a day in life of the indigenous people utuka who live at the foot of Mount Louigi.

In the story, an utuka named Naels finds a wounded deer on the side of Mount Louigi and carries it back to the village at the foot of the mountain. Naels is praised as a hero and the deer is feasted on by the villagers. The story is weird and has no point.

Multiple claims of authorship have been made, but the novelette remains unwritten as of 2017.

Utuka means “small hammer”. Utuka do not know the technology of paper and carve writings on wood. Their language is known to be surprisingly clever, making complex descriptions of the world easy to make using only few words. That does, however, mean a steep learning curve.