Fowl of Doom

Last night I dreamed that my Dad had a career writing Firefly AU tie-in novels in which Mal and Zoe solved cozy mysteries. The main recurring villain was an evil chicken.

In related news, I am amazed that I completely forgot that the very first few episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist contain a flock of zombie parrots, a giant attack parrot, and a giant zombie attack human-parrot chimera.

Fowl of Doom

Last night I dreamed that my Dad had a career writing Firefly AU tie-in novels in which Mal and Zoe solved cozy mysteries. The main recurring villain was an evil chicken.

In related news, I am amazed that I completely forgot that the very first few episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist contain a flock of zombie parrots, a giant attack parrot, and a giant zombie attack human-parrot chimera.

The YA Agony Awards: Semi-Finalists!

All the "shoot your pet" choices have failed to make it to the semi-finalists! It was a tough round, but Alan's euthanized animal kingdom beat Old Yeller's rabies.

Regarding the first question, not to tip the scales, but I recalled two pieces of information that might be useful: the cat is one of the few characters who does not starve to death in the apocalypse; when Sounder's face gets shot off, the boy puts part of his ear under his pillow and prays for him to recover.

Incidentally, it's already out of the competition, but I found an excerpt from the Scottish dog-on-dog massacre. And Hoppin's young dog, who three hours before had been the children's tender playmate, now fiendish to look on, dragged after the huddle up the hill. Back the mob rolled on her. When it was passed, she lay quite still, grinning; a handful of tawny hair and flesh in her dead mouth.

Have fun, folks!

( Dead pets, dead parents, and evil institutions )