What do you say to someone when they’re about to eat you alive?
During the last stream, chat voted that we write this prompt: A conversation between a spider and fly, just before the spider is about to suck its juices!
Watch the video of us getting the prompt
and reading the final story here, or scroll down to read it.
Here’s what we came up with:
“You know you don’t have to eat me, Spider. You can just let me go, and we’ll pretend like nothing happened!”
“Oh, Fly. You understand, don’t you? You eat food. And I must eat food too.”
“Yes, but think about what I eat. I’ve been sucking up nothing but animal turds all morning. You are what you eat, you know!”
“That says more about you than it does about me, friend.”
“Have you ever tried a nice tasty leaf? They’re filled with fiber and nutrients! And, best of all, they don’t beg for their lives when you eat them.”
“Ah, but that’s half the fun. Your struggling makes you even more tender.”
“You know you’re just propagating a broken system! The strong shouldn’t feed on the weak, we should work together, for a better future!”
“Or I could just eat you.”
“But it’s just a system of perpetual theft! You’re stealing the nutrients inside my body. They’re mine, not yours!”
“Just like you stole them from the waste of other animals.”
“Yes but that’s exactly it: waste! They weren’t using it anymore. How can you eat someone you’ve grown to know… and love?”
“Pretty sure you wouldn’t want me to love you, Fly. Do you know anything about spider mating rituals?”
“Uh… I can do impressions! Want to see my impression of a poisonous wasp? No, wait! Actually, I am poisonous.”
“I’m willing to take the chance.”
“No! Stop! I’m sorry, Mom! I was a bad maggot! I should’ve never—”
“Caw! Chomp. Oh damn. That’s a tasty spider!”
“Bird! You ate the spider. Thank you so much.”
“Huh? Who are you?”
“I’m Fly. Can you break the web so I can get out of here?”
“Uh, no. Bye.”
“Wait! Bird! Oh well. I guess I’ll just stay here for a while then. Slowly starving to death. That’s cool too. Thanks, Nature.”
“No problem.”
Be sure to check out the video for reactions to the prompt, see some different ways it could have gone, and get my thoughts on the full story!
If you want to join us and help write a story by trolling in chat, or share your own writing for feedback, then we’d love to have you. We stream on Twitch every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 6:30pm-10:30pm (U.S. Eastern Standard Time).
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Hope to see you next time, friend!
Scott Wilson is the author of the novel Metl: The ANGEL Weapon,
forthcoming March 2019.
Featured image: Wikipedia (Edited by me)
