You’ve been one-legged since the lasso trap. Your personal ad says “Kids: undecided” even though you desperately want two.
When the maître d’ shows you to your blind date’s table, you are pleased with her prominent forehead and symmetric face. She has potential.
Before you can sit, her eyes drift to where your missing leg would be and snap back to your face. She forces a smile.
You talk menu.
She likes the braised shank.
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Bo Kaier
Try My Shank by Kenton K. Yee
Morning Espresso at the Church of Me by
Anthony J. Rapino Dead Jimmy and the Selkie by Iseult Murphy
Episode art by
Matthew Mattice Read by
Mat Weller,
Nathan Lee Twabble: My butcher offered me a hand with my parcels, but they never have enough meat to justify picking out all the little bones. by Laria Grey "Try My Shank" by Kenton K. Yee was originally published at
PANK #7.05, May 2012.
"Morning Espresso at the Church of Me" by Anthony J. Rapino was originally published in Space Squid, Summer 2011.
"Dead Jimmy and the Selkie" by Iseult Murphy is a Drabblecast original. Music by
Gringo Motel