Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are is Dead

Little Guildenstern Margoshes passed on from this world early yesterday morning, resting among the green leaves of his plastic aquarium begonia.

Guildenstern was a good guppy, a happy guppy. His hobbies included sleeping on top of his water heater, swimming through his Greek ruins, and scavenging the glass stones at the bottom of the bowl for sunken flakes of food. He was also extremely resilient, having survived an apparent suicide leap from the counter to the kitchen floor where the cat was waiting to pounce, and several weeks later bouncing back from an accidental plunge into the open dishwasher. The latter he never fully recovered from, but as his color gradually drained away his spirit did not.

He is survived by his best friend, Rosencrantz Margoshes, and his hungry sister, Taffy.

Rest in peace, little guy.