Stories tagged “bugs”
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Tears
She stared at the blood on her hands. She had taken a life. She looked up at her mother, who told her it was time to go. Time to go before it was too late. She took a napkin, wiped at the blood. Out! Out damned spot! She looked up at her mother, who wa...
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The Hole in the Wall
Fur and Sera moved up, weapons at the ready. Lisa moved in behind them. “All right, this is new.” Sera pointed at a ragged hole in the wall, surrounded by fragments of stone and plaster dust. “Looks like they’ve tunneled in from...
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They're Not Real
“C’mon. It was just a movie.” Mike tried to hide his smile. “What if a nuclear catastrophe waits around the corner?” “Then the bugs will be a hundred times bigger than they are now. Possibly even carnivorous.” ...
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Bugs
I have always wondered about bugs. The creepy crawling things hiding under rocks, coming out at night, living in your shoes, under floorboards, & in the walls. The things that invade your spirit. I wondered about it all. I walked around staring at ...
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Donner and Blitzen and the Summer Immigrants
The dragonfly and firefly hovered over a rose. “Right there! Do you smell it now?” Donner asked Blitzen. “It’s insecticide! She found one of those Dog-gone . . .” “Now, Donner, you know how I feel when you take the n...
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The Little Hitchhiker
The little guy strained against the hurricane force winds. His muscles felt as though they would snap any second and his arms rip from their sockets. His fingers gripped the window’s edge like a vise. Becoming a hitchhiker wasn’t exactly on...