
PHOTO PROMPT © Victor and Sarah Potter
Hi Mom and Dad,
The bananas arrived fine. Luckily there were no problems with customs.
I have to tell you about my new home! It is spacious as all get out. Huge. I find it slightly sterile, but there is some life here. I’m settling right in and have picked out my favorite corner.
But I have big news. Are you ready?
I didn’t know it, but when I left I was pregnant. Isn’t that great!
Last night I laid about 20,000 eggs. I can’t wait for my brood to hatch!
My children will dine on human tonight!
Love,
Araña
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Word count = 100
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Ew. I can just imagine having a big bunch of baby spiders calling all over me and everything else. I love the idea of a letter to the parents and Arana setting up housekeeping. Good writing, Trent. :D — Suzanne
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Sorry, I meant that to be “crawling” not “calling”. :( — Suzanne
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yep, I got it :)
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Thanks. I thought there was a Far Side comic about a spider writing home that his bunch of bananas arrived safely, but no amount of Googling was able to find it.
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That sounds like something Far Side would have done. :D — Suzanne
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Yep. I can see it in my head, but I tried dozens of searches and discovered Far Side panels I had never seen before (I thought I had seen them all!), but I couldn’t locate it.
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Haha! Loved this. But now I’m looking carefully around my bedroom….. 😶
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Thanks! And check your produce carefully before you bring it home ;)
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Cheers for the paranoia 😆😉
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lol, maybe that’s why I occasionally drift towards horror ;)
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It’s Ok, I love horror 😉 I write it too.
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Fun story. It’s not everyday you read a letter written by a spider. I think the humans will have a rude awakening.
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Thanks. Hopefully they do awake ;) I’ll leave it to your imagination if it is just those small, annoying bites we all get or if there are just skeletons in the bed the next morning…
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20,000 eggs,,, ha ha ha. “Take that humans.” Things are looking up for Araña.
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Yes, Araña is going to get on just fine in her new home.
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Never really thought of myself as potential spider food :)
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I don’t think of myself as insect food, but mosquitoes have a different opinion ;) I’ve been bitten by spiders at night a few times, so I guess you could read it that the humans may be on the menu, but it will mostly just be an annoyance… lol, Yep, I agree, but I guess a lot of us Friday Fictioneers at least thought of the possibility.
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What an articulate spider! Nice one Trent
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Yes, she is very literate for an arachnid… Thanks.
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Well done. At least she didn’t think Mom and Dad would be upset about her pregnancy. :)
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No, they are modern parents. As long she can provide, and with all of those delicious humans around… ;) Thanks.
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Very progressive. :)
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Yes they are, particularly considering that they are spiders, who usually go along with sayings such as, “If this type of web was good enough for grandmother, it is good enough for you!”
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lol :D
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Well, that is a dinner plot switch. Love it!
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Yes, the bananas were not on the menu ;) Thanks!
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Woooah coolness indeed! Nicely done
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Thanks!
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Ha ha ha ha, deliciously wicked!
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Thanks! Glad you liked it.
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Superbly written. I could totally imagine this
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Thanks
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I, too, was expecting the spider to appear in the bananas… just not as the writer!
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I’ll have to try something like this on a larger scale, dropping hints until the end when I give it up. Actually, there is a book like that, Agyar by Steven Brust. For this, though, I’ll admit to being inspired by The Far Side.
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I love and miss the Far Side (no longer read the newspaper so no longer get my comics.
It definitely works here.
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Unfortunately Gary Larson stopped writing the Far Side a while ago. I miss it…
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I though so but since I haven’t had the paper in years, I wasn’t sure. He was great. I loved Calvin and Hobbes too…
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Calvin and Hobbes was my very favorite. You can still catch me quoting Calvin and Hobbes quite often….
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With good reason! It was brilliant. We mourned when he up and quit…
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Me too. I do have all of the cartoons in a collection, so I can go back and look when the mood takes me. Of course I know all of them by heart, so there usually isn’t a need – I just have to close me eyes.
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My sister has ’em all too, should I get a hankering. And I found I had one in my own stuff!
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Really BIG spider, eh?
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A spider the size of a Buick (to quote Woody Allen).
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Clever! A gem of wit!
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Thanks!
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😇
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Arghhhh! [shivers]
Good one! 😃
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Check the bananas before you leave the store… Thanks.
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Dear Trent,
That made me laugh and cringe at the same time. I won’t comment about the abundance thus far of flesh eating spiders. ;)
Shalom,
Rochelle
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There have been a lot of flesh eating spiders today, haven’t there? I think I spent too much time reading the Far Side as a college student…
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I think I might stop eating bananas… 20 000 spider would make me go bananas actually
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I think it would be enough to drive anyone bananas and away from bananas for life.
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Lol. I saw it (them) coming!
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And I hope you ran before they got too close ;)
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LOL. Great twist when the unexpected POV became apparent. I had thought the spider was going to be in the banana until then. Love your child’s name.
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Thanks. As to the name, Google helped a lot ;)
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Yikes – more spiders eating humans! (What is it about this prompt? :) )
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I think it’s because the spider looks huge in the photo (it is by the lights, but it looks like it is in the window). Also, even though spiders are much, much more likely to be helpful, for some reason we all have this fear of them.
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Oh, now that is a great perspective. Loved it. Shuddered at the thought, but loved it!
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Thanks. Somebody else showed a Far Side comic strip, and I have to admit that I was inspired by Far Side for this.
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Spiders in the house…not good. Spiders in the wild…good photography subjects. There is a place for everything.
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Spiders in the home can be OK since they are more apt to eat unwanted bugs than us, but I agree, I would much rather see them in the wild. I have a friend who loves to take spider photos. She particularly likes macro shots of jumping spiders.
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Arrrrrrrrrrgh!
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Too man man eating spiders in today’s Friday Fictioneer. At least I hope mine was fun ;)
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It was 😱😀
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lol! I like this! :)
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Thanks.
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The banana spider makes an entry here as well. Nicely done, Trent.
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Yes, it is great how that urban legend shows up everywhere. Thanks.
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Some years ago when my grandson (now almost nine) slept in a crib, I went to get the blanket in the crib to wash. I was aghast to discover about a billion baby spiders crawling all over the blanket. Fortunately, my grandson was at his Mom’s at the time, so my grandson never had a chance to get exposed (or eaten).
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I guess it really was time to fumigate, I mean wash, that blanket. That is nasty, but, as you said, at least he wasn’t there when they hatched.
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Another entry with spiders feeding on humans – this is not good for anyone with a phobia…!
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I think most of us have phobias where spiders are concerned… if we didn’t, we’d write sweet little stories about our friends who kill all of the nasty insects for us ;)
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Good one Trent.
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Thanks!
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