abstract art aegis airplanes aliens amphibians anatman angel of death angel-of-death angels ants asimov homage asimov-homage avahārakalikāranirvāņa axlotl badgers and badgering badgers-and-badgering bad potato balloon minerals bankers banshees barbie bats battlesuits bears (bounding - gelatinous - polar - scary - winged - etc.) bears-(bounding-gelatinous-polar-scary-winged-etc.) bees belshazzar bethany bidge boar bob books boring trees bounding bears boxes breakfast cereal breakfast-cereal broderick buddha-call burroughs homage burroughs-homage cain and/or cocaine cain-and/or-cocaine calliope canada cartography castle categorization cats centipedes central ceph et cetera cerycur chanya chaos cheney chimerae chimney christmas-sama claire claus cloud-shrugging zeus cloud-shrugging-zeus cockatrices coming back to life coming-back-to-life confucianism contemner contemners cookies coretta's lion coretta's-lion cow cows and mad cow disease cows-and-mad-cow-disease coyote coyotes crocodiles cronos c.-s.-lewis-homage cylons cynosures damnation daniel danielle daoist incantations daoist-incantations death demeter demons devadatta disco dogs dracula dragons drowning in a metaphor or state drowning-in-a-metaphor-or-state drowning in dry beans drowning in the chaos drowning-in-the-chaos drowning in the earth drowning-in-the-earth duck ducks (including the rubber ducks) ducks-(including-the-rubber-ducks) dukkha dukkha call dukkha-call dunsany homage dunsany-homage early liril early-liril earth-shaker poseidon earth-shaker-poseidon earthworms easter bunny easter-bunny eggs elephants elm hill elm-hill eloah elohim emily eritrea evasive a evasive-a fairies faith familiars fang of z'al fenrir fetches fiends filchers filial piety filial-piety fire firewood firvuli fish footsoldiers forbidden-a forest frankenstein's monster frankenstein's-monster frogs furniture ge gelatinous bears gelatinous-bears ghouls giants gibbelins ginette gingerbread people gingerbread-people giraumons goats (including both sticky and heroic goats) goats-(including-both-sticky-and-heroic-goats) god-defying lightbringing yama king god-defying-lightbringing-yama-king gongluestuck trees gonshuckt trees grangler grasshoppers great bear great-bear hades halldis hans hard gums heaps helen of troy helen-of-troy hell hera hero histories homage hooks hope hopping vampire hopping-vampire immortality imps including the rubber ducks iphigenia iraq war iraq-war iris island of the centipede 1 island-of-the-centipede-1 island of the centipede 2 island of the centipede 3 island of the centipede 3 interlude island of the centipede 4 island of the centipede 5 island-of-the-centipede-5 island of the centipede prologue