The warmth led to predictions of warmer weather, less rain, an increase in pollen count as the trees responded, and a high danger of hornet attacks. She gritted her teeth as she read the news and then went up to the attic to dig out the armored hornet-suit and helmet required for leaving the house. She made enough to afford the suit, and her job ( Read more... )

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A wave of sorrow was the first warning of the tear-drinkers' migration. The first year, the colonists had no idea what it meant, and several died of grief when the migration arrived. Well, that was what it was written down as in people's journals from that time. The official record was that they had died of extreme dehydration over the course of ( Read more... )

She was made of butterflies. They flitted through her mind, her ears were filled with the whisper of their wings, and she could never look at anything for long without seeing flickers of color at the corners of her vision. Butterfly wings. It started when she was only a little girl, when her uncle gave her a "hatch your own butterfly" kit. Then in ( Read more... )

I stay away from the jar of flies she keeps in every room. They're her spies, and they buzz in her ears at night when she takes all the jars into her bedroom and lets them fly around while she sleeps. Sometimes this means she knows things she shouldn't. Sometimes it also means she believes her dreams are true. This can be very bad if she has ( Read more... )