Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
March 16, 2026

Issue of August 15, 2005

11 articles in this issue.


WikiWikiWebster 02 by Alexandra Queen — Comic

The definition of a johnny collar.

Fever Dreams 054 by Sand Pilarski — Comics

The mathematics of cat ownership!

Peek of the Week 03 by Sand Pilarski — Comics photograph

Oil painting, portrait of Babe and Howie

Journey With Animals: A Memoir by Wendy Robards — Cover story nonfiction memoir

Having a pet can be a rewarding relationship. Though most of the time, we take care of their needs, sometimes they wind up taking care of ours.

Websurfing 30 by Alexandra Queen — News internet opinion webcomics

Guest columnist Alex Queen takes you on a tour of some of the more interesting webcomics outside of the Press. From silly, crude fun to some simply amazing examples of art and story-telling.

Meanderings 30 by Basil D. — Op_ed

The current of life carries you ever forward, and sometimes paths cross briefly, never to meet again. Jaimie-Lynn was different from the other children, and after second grade she was quietly removed from school. But you never know how even the most fleeting of contacts can impact another soul.

Oort Cloud Oddities: Hydrophobic Felines by Alexandra Queen — Op_ed humor pets

You think the Halloween or Nightmare on Elm Street movies were scary and violent? If you want a mix of terrors, screams and bloodshed, just get a cat within ten feet of a swimming pool or shower. Cats and water do not mix.

Sheba by Holly Jahangiri — Poem unrhymed
Time Traveler 05 by Sand Pilarski — Serial fiction romance contemporary mature content

It's the social event of the season, and for the first time in nearly ten years, Augusta doesn't have a date for the occasion. In fact, her ex-lover Moersgard is going to show up with his new hottie ... but that's not the most disturbing incident of the evening ...

DogDoo Speaker by Alexandra Queen — Short fiction contemporary fantasy

With permission of (and apologies to) fellow staffers Josh and Audie, you are invited to take a step backwards in time, to visit con-man and spiritual psychic Vince Raines long before he met the strange creature who opened his mind to the whispers of demons. Meet a younger Vince, lower on the food chain of scam artists, posing as a pet psychic. And meet "September," the woman whose fecally fluent Scotty dogs prompt Vince to look into a career change...

Pet Tales by Ed Moyer — Short fiction humor pets

Ever wonder just what it is they do when we're not home?

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