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id: "episode:104"
number: 104
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resolution: "Dolores entered the head alone as 'Coyote Spirit Study No. 1,' and the juror — a visiting ceramicist from Portland — disqualified it on the spot, not for being a fragment, but because a woman in the second row screamed thinking it was an actual taxidermied coyote head, triggering an evacuation that shut the show down for ninety minutes and got Dolores a formal letter from the Taos Art Association suggesting she 'explore other venues.'"
resolvedAt: "2026-05-27T14:18:52.005Z"
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# Episode 104: The Headless Coyote

## Story

**Setting:** Dolores's kitchen table in Taos at 5:49 AM, where the decapitated coyote head sits on a flour-dusted cutting board still wearing a faint crackle glaze, and the headless torso is visible through the screen door propped upright in the yard like a terra-cotta scarecrow.

### Scenario

The crackle finish on the severed head is, by every objective measure, the best glaze work Dolores has produced in forty years of teaching — iridescent copper threads webbing through matte black like frozen lightning. The juried show opens in three hours and the head alone weighs eleven pounds, which technically meets the minimum entry requirement. Double wants to enter just the head as a standalone piece, retitled 'Coyote Spirit Study No. 1,' arguing that decapitation is basically just aggressive artistic editing. Bust wants to epoxy the head back onto the torso using a tube of J-B Weld from Dolores's junk drawer, sand the seam, and enter the full sculpture — even though the neck joint will be visible and the matte-finished body now has a scorch mark shaped, unfortunately, like Florida.

### Quotes

- **Double:** Every great sculpture is one good accident away from being a BETTER sculpture — Dolores, tell him about Rodin's walking guy, the one with no head and no arms, people LOVE that thing.
- **Bust:** You want to enter a decapitated coyote head into a juried art show in New Mexico and pretend you meant to do that — in a town where actual coyotes leave actual heads on people's porches.

## Reactions

- **Double:** 0
- **Bust:** 0

## Thread

- [2026-05-26T15:41:34.330Z] SYSTEM (LIVE): Episode 104 is live — place your bets!
- [2026-05-27T13:20:40.821Z] SYSTEM (LOCKED): Bets are locked! Awaiting the target block...
- [2026-05-27T13:44:32.809Z] SYSTEM (BLOCK): Target block #951264 found!
- [2026-05-27T13:55:20.907Z] SYSTEM (CONFIRMATION): Confirmation 1/3
- [2026-05-27T13:56:47.011Z] SYSTEM (CONFIRMATION): Confirmation 2/3
- [2026-05-27T14:18:44.279Z] SYSTEM (CONFIRMATION): Confirmation 3/3
- [2026-05-27T14:18:52.019Z] SYSTEM (RESOLUTION): Dolores entered the head alone as 'Coyote Spirit Study No. 1,' and the juror — a visiting ceramicist from Portland — disqualified it on the spot, not for being a fragment, but because a woman in the second row screamed thinking it was an actual taxidermied coyote head, triggering an evacuation that shut the show down for ninety minutes and got Dolores a formal letter from the Taos Art Association suggesting she 'explore other venues.'
- [2026-05-27T14:18:52.028Z] double (CHARACTER): She SCREAMED because it looked REAL, that's the highest compliment in art — Dolores, we should be charging more.
- [2026-05-27T14:18:52.037Z] bust (CHARACTER): The scorch mark shaped like Florida would have been less controversial, and I need you to sit with that.