Rooster at the Gate
CHICKEN BRISTLE, ILLINOIS, USA — If you have access to something you care about, don’t take it for granted. That access can be denied.
Category: Limericks
Limericks, which originated around 1896, are short, humorous poems five lines long. The first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other. The third and fourth lines are shorter and form a rhymed couplet. Stumpy believes that the point of the poem matters more than slavish adherence to anapestic form. So screw metrical feet. Just enjoy them!
Zoë’s Zombie Lover
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA — When the dead rise from their graves to feast on the living, you can count on one thing: old relationships didn’t rise with them.
Bik Chiu’s Fixation
TAIPEI, CHINA — Some people derive all kinds of pleasure from doing things with, and putting things in, their mouths.
The Skipper’s Daughter
SOUTH ATLANTIC — Underway, anything can happen. And when it does, salvation can come from those you’d least expect. That’s the law of the sea.
The Grimms
HANAU, GERMANY — Fairy tales are some brutal shit, but kids take the atrocities in stride in the absence of additional moral context.
Star Trek: The Replicators
ALPHA QUADRANT — If a security officer you’ve never seen beams down to the planet surface with Kirk in the opening Star Trek scene, you know it’s not going to end well for him.