Everybody loves a contest. It's even more meaningful when people like the prizes. The best way to do that is to get input from people who'd be interested. To help with that, I'm going to run a mini contest.

Dead Pets Society is a passion project of @honeydue and @godfish. It is about yearning for the other. About the desire to subvert meanings and look at the world through different eyes. To see things anew.

In 1976, Byte was already covering computers for hobbyists and other small systems users. The July 1976 issue includes:

How is it that you plant vegetables and these slimy little creatures won’t let them be? You plant, you tend, and when the vegetables start flourishing, these wild snails show up like they own the place.