Gunnerkrigg Court/Haiku
A red-haired cypher,
young scientist, fox demon:
Our protagonists.
New friends, psychopomps,
demons, robots, trickster gods:
Coolest school ever.
Ask around the court,
Everyone will agree.
Boxbot: Terrible.
Chapter One begins:
Robot 13, Shadow 2
Take It to the Bridge.
Two: We meet a myth
Living in a labyrinth.
(He has a time share.)
Three: A strange meeting.
Rogat Orjak hits the roof;
Annie hits her head.
Four: A timid ghost
Haunts the halls of Gunnerkrigg,
Not very scary.
Five: Zeta, Gamma,
Enter in the science fair.
Kat makes zero-G.
Six: Girls find cherries
Growing in a hidden room;
Memories bring tears.
Seven: On the bridge,
Robot 13 acting strange;
A disastrous fall.
Treatise Number One
Tells us, "Pray, read, read again,
Work, and you shall find."
Eight: A blinker stone,
Ghosts and suicide fairies.
Kat to the rescue!
Nine: Questions are asked;
Answers just bring more questions.
Reynardine may speak.
Ten: Go, Spacemonauts!
Aliens from outer space!
Earth is saved! (For now...)
Eleven: We see
What goes on in Zimmy's mind
While she waits for rain.
Twelve: Some robots have
Antennae, and they don't lie.
Annie's skills amaze.
Thirteen: Kat's first crush;
She likes him, and he likes her,
'Til he flies away.
Fourteen: Gods visit.
Coyote has a rude nose ...
Beware the spankies!
Treatise Number Two:
Kat is dressed as Eglamore;
Annie, as Surma.
Fifteen: Red returns.
Blue will be her BFF
'Cause her hair goes up.
Sixteen: Young Annie
Can face danger, because of
What her mother said.
Seventeen: Parley,
Medium is a Large Ham
When she talks like that.
Eighteen: More robots,
Secret shrine to Jeanne. "She died
And we did nothing."
Nineteen: Late one night,
Annie and Jack find themselves
Inside Zimmy's head.
Twenty: In the woods,
Visiting with Coyote,
Annie pokes the Moon.
Twenty-One: A note,
Blinker stone and psychopomp,
Magic computer.
Twenty-Two: We learn
Who's that girl in the photo.
Jimmy punches jerk.
Treatise Number Three:
Annie has Coyote's eye.
Kat's mind on machines.
Break Time: "City Face"
Fairy must teach bird to dance,
Or the world will end!
Twenty-Three: Action!
We travel to Ganymede!
(Then to Parley's bed.)
Twenty-Four: Camping
In the misty countryside.
Laser cows are cool.
Twenty-Five: "Oh no!
A sad face! The saddest face!"
Count of angels: one.
Twenty-Six: New tricks
Taught by old dog; true faces
Seen in the ether.
Twenty-Seven: Jack
Asks Annie where Zimmy is;
Reynardine is trapped.
Alas! Kat can't sleep.
She'll do work to pass the time.
Then drools on the desk.
Twenty-Eight: Who's who?
Zimmingham full of spiders
Zimmy saves tired Jack
Twenty-Nine: Kat finds
An abandoned baby bird
It's very ugly.
Thirty: Vengeful ghost
Forces Parley to confront
What is in her heart.
Thirty-One: Annie
Has her mother's fire (in the
Most literal sense).
Treatise Number Four:
Girls separate, yet are bound;
Jeanne's heart is wounded.
Now: City Face 2!
Birds eat bagels, and become
Human businessmen!
Thirty-two: New year;
Girls fight, then are friends again
(Once Annie showers).
Thirty-three: Angel
Gives life to the Court robots;
Takes it back, as well.
Thirty-four: Night out ...
Jack and Annie aren't in love;
Will and Janet, yes.
Thirty-five: Training,
Parley cuts Robot with tooth;
Shadow is 3-D.
Thirty-six: In class,
Brains and bodies disconnect;
Red now has a name.
Thirty-seven: Dad
Rendezvoused with Microsat
Five, then flew away.