Fake Everglades Set
The Everglades are calm and chaotic, instinctual and adaptive, wild and beautiful, and of course, real. The key word is real since we are reading about the most unreal reality TV show pretending to...
The Stuffed Gator, Old Sleepy
This alligator is dead. In order to lure tourists into paying for a boat ride though, Sickler promised that they'd see a gator. To make good on his promise, he nailed a stuffed gator to a log in th...
Lightning and The Helmet Cam
There is a reason Zeus was the god of the sky and that his weapon was lightning: Thunder and lightning are the ultimate symbols of power. Weather—and storms in particular—is a symbol of the pow...
The Mastiff Bat
It's no surprise that the mastiff bat—the kind that bit Derek on his tongue—would be a symbol. The narrator tells us, "The mastiff bat that Derek Badger slowly lowered toward his gaping maw was...