Hati Gets the Hiccups
a note from our special correspondent

Note: Our correspondent's celebrity subjects are characters from Old Norse mythology.

Hati and Skoll are sons of the great wolf Fenris.
    They are tasked with pursuing and devouring the Sun and the Moon.

Hel is the aunt of Hati and Skoll.
    She rules the Underworld — and hence the dead who do not go to Valhalla.
  

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Jotunheimr —

Our correspondent reports a quarrel in high life today as brothers Skoll (the Mocker) and Hati (the Hater) point the claw at each other over Hati’s spectacular weekend fail.

Apparently the Hairy Hater actually had the moon in his jaws when a sudden bout of the hiccups allowed the shining orb to escape. Skoll reportedly castigated his twin as a “burping buffoon,” while Hati blamed Skoll for the incident, citing “human soda-pop” served by his brother at a pre-hunt Happy Hour.

At that point, their Aunt Hel, never loath to give her opinion, complained that “you boys are spoiling everyone's Ragnarok again …” whereupon a full-scale family row resulted …
  

(Our correspondent promises to discover more juicy details of this dust-up! Will Loki intervene? What does the Midgard Serpent think? Check back for the latest updates!)

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