Past The Town Of Strange

Nearly True Science Fact: Iguanodons were avid gardeners, and fossilized trowels, sunhats, and watering cans are often found among Iguanodon fossil remains. 

The pangolin was in no danger of falling off—he’d anchored the rope with a silver spoon, which is one of the seven orthodox ways of roping a star, and the only one that doesn’t require radioactive elements or a live banana slug—but the star’s occasional random twitches were starting to make him a little queasy.

"I don’t suppose you can twitch a little less?" he called up.

Here, for your amusement, a morality tale in one act, like the vanitas paintings of the Renaissance, where a lush still-life of fruit would contain a skull or a fly or something similiar as a reminder of mortality. In this piece, the dragon enjoys the lusciously striped lollipop, and all is right with the world…but below, lurking, the turnip hulks as a grim reminder of the mortality of tooth enamel, a vegetative commandment to Eat Your Veggies, Clean Your Plate and not indulge in too many sweets, a dark and rooty harbinger of dental visits to come.