Posts tagged "ruination"
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Why I write A Blog
I remember one time, one early evening, I happened to be looking at my deck when a big longhorn beetle landed and rolled on its back. I set it right, but it immediately unset itself. Lying there, walking to nowhere, it was as if whatever tiny soul it had was reliving the thing that made it feel most free. An hour later, its legs were now moving in slow motion. Death was close. I went away for a while, and when I came back, the first ants had appeared. Scavenger bitches! It wasn’t dead yet!1 Half an hour later (or so), I checked again and there was a swarm of ants trying to move the corpse. When I went to bed they were still working. The next morning there was nothing there. A writer should have a question that has stalked him like Death his whole life.
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