Dive Mask

Object No. 24 of 50 — Significant Objects v2

[Bid on this Significant Object, with story by Gary Panter, here. Significant Objects will donate the proceeds of this auction to 826 National.]

I wanted to create a monster hoax out at Century Lake, like the guys in stories in Boy's Life. I had notebooks full of illustrated plans and lists of items I would need to effect three pranks. That was the most fun: plotting and scheming and list-making.

Big monster tracks were easy: twenty-inch-long reptile ...