Goat Kills Snake

Alan McCormick / Jonny Voss

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Pablo the goat came over all Diablo when a slimy snake slithered under his hoof.

'Cotton-picking son of a slitherer!' yelled Pablo, who up until now had never uttered a word in his life.

'Rattle,' rattled the snake.

'Enough of that,' yelled Pablo as he brought his hoof down on the rattling snake's rattling spine.

'And take that too,' he yelled again, bringing another hoof down to silence the rattler for good and for bad.

The desert fell silent. The moon glowered like a shiny spoon and Pablo began to eat the snake.

'What's come over me,' he thought. 'I'm normally a peace loving chap, and I've always been an herbivore.'

The desert stayed quiet and offered no reply, but a ball of dry prairie grass rolled by until Pablo ate that too.



© Alan McCormick / Jonny Voss

imageABOUT THE ARTISTS
Jonny Voss creates the pictures and Alan McCormick writes the words. The excerpts from Dumpsters were inspired by summer walks around Vauxhall and Walthamstow in search of discarded objects. Recent collaborations are even more accidental but like all their work share a desire for spontaneity and impulsiveness. They are also working on an illustrated children's book, Udo's Search for the Two Colins.

Alan McCormick's fiction has been widely published and an assortment of his stories have appeared previously on Dogmatika, whilst you are likely to see Jonny Voss's pictures every day, on billboards and in shops—you can discover more at Jonny Voss.com. Further McCormick & Voss collaborations can be found in Volume Magazine 2 and on Dead Drunk Dublin.