Chapter 1: The Impact of a Scalpel on the Stomach of a 14-Year-Old Scientist
The daughter begged her mother to sign the sheet—to not see such a thing beneath her own small knife.
Chapter 2: The Relationship Between Creator and Creation
VIRTUAL FROG DISSECTION SIMULATOR UPDATES. Version 2.4, 2017. UPDATE: SQUISH sound to play each time the scalpel is used to cut a new part of the frog flesh. A splatter effect will play when clicking parts of the frog body. BUG FIXES: Fixed pixelated frog skin—now more realistic than ever. Fixed gallbladder texture—now appears more bile-filled.
Chapter 3: The Effects of a Teacher’s Credit Card on a School Laptop
The real frog costs $0.50. The virtual lab costs $2.00.
Chapter 4: Analyzing the Interior and Anterior of a Small Amphibian
fantastically bloodless & scentless
the digital open frog
bones bright white & delicate
& wide eyes th ecolor of velvet
dead much prettier than a real frog;
to splay ti open would reveal
virtual black ova
girl frog
she has a still heart of vibrant red
there must be no virtual formaldehyde
she is a perfect specimen
beneath a pixelated scalepel
preserved in vibrant color
with her several hundred cybernated offspring
like a little adulteress, bog-free
Chapter 5: The Effective Monitoring of Audio and Visual Input Captured
Suspended in formaldehyde to maintain the countenance of the living without any of the effort of remaining so, the little frogs inside the room lay bare to the core on rust-trimmed trays so their ninth-grade disembowelers may mislabel their lungs on a black-and-white diagram (Exposed, 2017).
An Arkansas native, Sarah Watkins is an educator by trade and a writer by necessity. She currently resides in northeast Arkansas with her husband.
