(Author’s Note: Getting things ready for a new 1000+ word story for the blog. Thanks to Lisa Young, my colleague here in Korea, who is also doing a story as a two-person challenge. Shapes will be abounding. In the meantime, here’s your Fictioneers.)
Photo Prompt © Shaktiki Sharma
The Bug
by Miles H. Rost
“Daisy, I told you that I’m just going to sit up here until someone notices me and screams. Then I’ll fly off.”
“Trent, realize that you’re a mantis wasp. People will be afraid, but you’re going to get smacked.”
“Bah. I’m big and people don’t smack big things around. They just run like crazy and we get our jollies off of them.”
“You’re gonna get killed. I’m not watching this. I’m outta here.”
“But wait, Daisy…”
Trent looked out at the people in the temple.
“Oh well, looks like I’ll just have to…”
Crunching was the last sound he heard.
Music and Fiction 
Dear Miles,
Crunching….that made me cringe. I’m not a big bug fan. However, I do run from wasps and then spray the hell out of them with bug spray.
Shalom,
Rochelle
She tried to tell him.
Oh, how pleasantly cruel. Smash… well, there goes the other one. Smack, and another…. Welcome to Spring!
I identified so much with the “hero” that i hated to see him get crunched. 😉
Ew. Poor thing.
On his tombstone: Crunched for Not Listening!
You made me laugh!
One should never disregard the advice of a wise daisy.
Another one falls…I am starting to develop a strange fondness for poor little bugs. I liked how they sound like an old married couple. 🙂
In Trent’s defense, I would have expected the odds of him escaping to be better in a house of worship.
Does it say on his tombstone, here lies another who never listened.😉
It pays to heed well meaning advice.
I heard that crunch – nicely done!
And the morale of the story is…!
Listen to the woman! (XD)
Well, she tried to warn him…
I can’t imagine how loud a crunch a bug that big would make. *shivers*