You've somehow gotten a giant clock stuck around your neck and your first instinct is to lick it?

As part of his Aicardi Syndrome Fundraiser, Jim C. Hines issued a challenge to John Scalzi: Recreate the pose on the cover of The Taste of Night. Hines has a history of recreating the poses of women in sci-fi and fantasy cover art, but Scalzi proved no slouch in the posing department either.

There might be too many revelations going on here.

There isn't one part of this cover, including the title, that doesn't make me uncomfortable.

Uh... sure, if you say so.

Plus what? Man plus fly? Because I'm pretty sure that's already a thing.

"It's mine! I won this goldfish from the carnival and no one's gonna take it away from me!"