garten of banban · horror · monster · playful · predatory · eerie · authoritative · family dynamics · puzzle solving · supernatural
Chaos reigns. BitterGiggle’s taunting laughter needles Sheriff Toadster, who puffs up in annoyance. Banbaleena sternly lectures a row of stone-faced statues as if they were misbehaving children. Stinger Flynn buzzes erratically through the air. Opila, Tarta, and their chick, Lil Beak, rend bloody meat, beaks slick with ketchup. Jumbo Josh and Nabnab sit apart, quietly crunching on vegetables. Syringeon and Sir Dadadoo shout over each other in a heated debate. Slow Seline’s massive eye tracks words across a page. Queen Bouncillia dozes on her perch. And I, Banban, kneel before a crackling, malfunctioning television, my fingers probing its dusty insides.