Grackle

Grackle starting to think this isn’t St. Louis after all.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

Prairie Dog performing Midsummer Night's Dream

I will discharge it in either your straw-colour

beard, your orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain

beard, or your French-crown-colour beard, your

perfect yellow.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

Stick Insect

If you volunteer at the zoo (or get an internship), you might get to hold a bug* too.

* Technically, a stick insect is not a bug because it doesn’t suck. It chews instead.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.