J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Sheldon J. Plankton, the owner of the Chum Bucket, has been a staple of SpongeBob SquarePants since the first season. His nefarious schemes are always foiled in one way or another, and his life's goal ...

There are a few staple plots that many cartoons inevitably return to: the vacation episode, the Christmas episode, the “it was all a dream” episode, etc. But one of the most consistently fun of these ...