So you're out trick or treating eh?
Feeling perhaps a bit too old? Be a man and go venture somewhere
where the little kids don't go, or are you too scared? You hear
noises in the dark, you swallow hard to get the saliva down your
now dry throat. The blood pounding in your ears from the adrenalin puts
your mind in red alert as your body has automatically gone into defence
mode red alert.
You may think you are safe once you
run inside and slam the door. But the worst is yet to come. Tired,
you make your way to your bed, unaware of what lurks in the shadows.
Rats, carrier of disease, and natural born breeders, infestate every
country on the planet. If you have seen one rat, you can know there
are 50 more to be found. Oh, but rats aren't your enemy tonight. It's
the predators of the rat that will invade your home as you sleep. One
sting from this foot long centapede can instantly kill a rat, kill
a young infant, and give you weeks of excrutiating pain if bitten.
For everyone one of it's legs, another
doubles as a pair of fangs.
Able to scale vertical walls, it shows
no mercy, and feels no pain. Hyperdermic barbs destroy their prey
with powerful venom.
Need not worry for your life,
few people die from these insects, if that helps you sleep any better...
If you're lucky, and when it's crawling on you, if you don't move, it
won't attack, as it guides it's way sensing minute vibrations. You
are advised, if you sleep, to sleep like a dead man.
Sound asleep are we? Couldn't fight
off the compeling urge to sleep I see. How much faith in God you must
have, I'm sure all your sins have been confessed, or suffer the
misfortune of an unfortunate event. If you've ever seen
a fly, it must have grown up. For
the uninformed an infant fly is a ground maggot, or fly larvae. They crawl
along the surface, drawn by pure instinct to feed and replicate themselves.
The maggots are drawn by the warmth of your skin, the moisture from your
exhaust. Like zombies they advance in search of one thing, your blood.
Yet your outer skin layer is too thick for them to penetrate..they
prefer nice soft tissue like a nostril, an ear, or perhaps your mouth.
After they have drawn their blood, they drop to the floor and crawl
back behind the shadows...when they hunger again, they will be back,
maybe with a few hundred more of their siblings this time.