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Alice Comments: Frogs: “Hey, we requested the Trial by Water!”
Published 1981
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Tagged with: "a novel" • A Del Rey Book • Bob Stickgold • damsel • Derek James • fire • frog people • white-clothed protagonist • witch
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March 1st, 2017 at 11:44 am
She’s not made of wood, she’s made of frogs. She can’t be a witch!
March 1st, 2017 at 12:39 pm
Is Space Sheep on holiday?
March 1st, 2017 at 12:53 pm
While you got a good witch fire going, toss a couple frog legs in. I’m hungry.
March 1st, 2017 at 1:34 pm
That is one hot nurse!
March 1st, 2017 at 1:42 pm
I don’t think they’re frogs, maybe salamanders. Isn’t there some ancient legend about salamanders being able to survive in fire?
Maybe that’s their “potent weapon.” Good luck on that.
March 1st, 2017 at 2:10 pm
@BC: I think we know what the potent weapon is, if it involves lighting something up in California!
(That’s a marijuana joke, by the by)
(I mean, look, his name is ‘Stickgold’. Can you be any more explicit?)
March 1st, 2017 at 2:15 pm
…so don’t privatise the NHS!
March 1st, 2017 at 2:37 pm
@DSWBT:
Don’t bogart that frog, my friend
Pass it over to me . . .
March 1st, 2017 at 3:03 pm
They renamed Obamacare in L.A., but the death panels have gotten even worse
March 1st, 2017 at 3:12 pm
What is ‘Mother of Frogs’ in High Valyrian?
March 1st, 2017 at 4:38 pm
They don’t look like they’re tied to the pole. So why don’t they leave?
And, who do you think is the time traveller — the nurse, or the woman in really old fashioned clothing? Or does she just like to dress retro?
March 1st, 2017 at 4:50 pm
@Anna: Not only are they loosely tied, there seem to be flames only in the foreground. (Frogground?)
March 1st, 2017 at 5:08 pm
Seems like the outcome of this scene is a froggone conclusion.
March 1st, 2017 at 7:52 pm
Nothing makes getting burned at the stake worse than suddenly getting a crick in your neck.
March 1st, 2017 at 11:37 pm
A surprisingly good book.
March 2nd, 2017 at 3:14 am
Blurb contradicts artwork. Ex-noob becomes confused.
Are those frogs very close, or super-huge? If they’re drawn to the same scale/very nearby the women, those aren’t native California frogs.
ribbit.
March 2nd, 2017 at 10:49 am
@GSS Ranologist: Doubtless an invasive species of amphibian. That’ll be £1.
March 6th, 2017 at 1:53 pm
Frog 1: “What’s going on here?”
Frog 2: “That Frenchman said we were invited to a barbeque!”
March 7th, 2017 at 12:18 pm
@Dead Frog With Big Teeth
Link’s broken. Were you by any chance suggesting they belong to this delightful species?
March 7th, 2017 at 4:55 pm
@RachelJ: ah, the cane toad! One of the few amphibians known to commit necrophilia in the natural world! No, actually, that one was about a frog invading California (hence the applicability to the title). But if the link isn’t working, I’ll waive my fee.
October 8th, 2019 at 9:05 am
Screw witchcraft, what those poor women need is Twitter.
#burnedmetoo
(Too soon? We’re always Too Soon here at Good Show Sir…)