TORPID SLIVERS #42

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Blast the metal with air from a pair of bellows to keep the morning brisk...

FILM: The Seaside Lynx

/ Colin Raff / Media
The seaside lynx inhabits the rockiest shorelines of the Black Sea...

The Ant’s Venom

/ Colin Raff / Misc
The lone pair of berries at the end of a typical pedicel of Rondequinthine honeysuckle mimics the dark eyes and head of a Ginchbeck’s bounding ant...

Torpid Slivers #41

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Why Gibber-In-Visible Morsels featuring Moth-Hyena™ Remains the Most Collectible Discontinued Monster-Themed Breakfast Cereal

Let Me Clarify #4: Unsolicited Advice by Genia Blum

/ Genia Blum / Misc
My father fled Ukraine after World War II with only the proverbial shirt on his back. He met my mother in an Austrian displaced persons camp.

Torpid Slivers #40

/ Colin Raff / Misc
A Red Terrapisck (Loricatorsiti varstullus) can be tamed and trained by means of its taste for human perspiration

Torpid Slivers #39

/ Colin Raff / Misc
To remind ourselves that Abtestudonia constitutes its very own vertebrate class among tetrapods, we need only recall that no fish can live out its life wriggling on dry land.

Torpid Slivers #38

/ Colin Raff / Misc
The fake Spindulephopods currently flooding (or rather poisoning) the market look quite similar to the real thing...

Torpid Slivers #37

/ Colin Raff / Misc
The following dance is for those who found the previous too difficult.

Torpid Slivers #36

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Must have tumbled out, poor chap. I’ll give him a lift back…

Torpid Slivers #35

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Mock away, Xaphariaxa. Should any of your words sting, I need only recall that you are the mother of that brat Gangrezzelas.

Torpid Slivers #34

/ Colin Raff / Misc
The mating columnhoppers (Stictocephala capitellum) will not be happy until they can replicate in silhouette the hand of the entomologist T. Velchzinger

Torpid Slivers #33

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Bephimogostoloma-Finnifigletch (a.k.a. Bletchmog, Botchmug, Fetchpug or Gustolomomorynomothobatollus) is a mighty baronet of Hell

Torpid Slivers #32

/ Colin Raff / Misc
If you think C and D are exactly alike, accept that you will never find out where the treasure is hidden.

Torpid Slivers #31

/ Colin Raff / Misc
They say a sailor’s lot is rougher now than it’s ever been.

Torpid Slivers #30

/ Colin Raff / Misc
This costume, designed after Haugrellet’s “Bivaloum Racing Along the Glaubenberg Pass,” is of azure satin with golden bands, buttons, tassel and mask trimming.

Torpid Slivers #29

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Even the best of us, in our tender years, were at some moments cruel to other children.

Torpid Slivers #28

Torpid Slivers #27

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Said to resemble the traditional clown Charmident, the Armored grass cricket’s head can grow to roughly the size of an adult

Torpid Slivers #26

/ Colin Raff / Misc
It shall come pointless humanoid forming, in a hull of gold [........]...] Yes, gold. piloted by molluscs

Torpid Slivers #25

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Of the stag films unearthed at Glyndrian Ryptosch-Crelleck‘s estate, only one is confirmed to be scripted by Ryptosch-Crelleck himself

Torpid Slivers #24

/ Colin Raff / Misc
As we uncover new possibilities and glean new knowledge from our pursuits, so shall our understanding continue to grow.

Torpid Slivers #23

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Heed the preceding, and you can take full advantage of the many wonderful experiments available to you.

Torpid Slivers #22

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Manufacturers of candy and fireworks often employ this method for the exact measurement of radial stress in hypothetical cylinders.

Torpid Slivers #21

/ Colin Raff / Misc
We now approach that region of applied science where the most diverse and beautiful rewards await the diligent.

Torpid Slivers #20

/ Colin Raff / Misc
By the time this story begins, the cloth grimace had become the face of Elsionna’s dread.

Torpid Slivers #19

/ Colin Raff / Misc
We consider this experiment a success and subject to further refinements.

Torpid Slivers #18

/ Colin Raff / Misc
The page that follows is the most obscure of the manuscript, presenting a group of ciphers that, in their impenetrability, remind us how the entire opus must remain an enigma.