AOL.com Article - Spider burrowed into scar, crawled through man's bodyhttp://www.aol.com/article/2014/10/16/spider-burrowed-into-scar-crawled-through- ( Read more... )

Here there is night everlasting.

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A Plutonian Sun
Strikes wizened rubies
From ice-encrusted rocks
With a brittle, time-crystallized chisel
Of old, dying light.
The ragged, threadbare skirts
Of the galaxy
Droop forlornly
Over abysses of night:
No seamstress now lives
To mend them,
Nor ever shall again:
Even Spider-Woman
Has spun Her last webs

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Carnivorous butterflies
With wings of Teflon and aluminum
And guts of rotten lard
Sit quietly upon
A fleshless, polished skull,
Letting their meal digest,
Preening the blood from their probosces
With delicate gestures of steel-spiked feet,
Chattering among themselves
In the soft, breathless whispers
Of the mad.

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She had never liked traveling by railroad, anyway; this journey was a nightmare, and to compound her misery, it went via the slowest, most run-down of rail “services” imaginable. As one of her traveling companions - however accidental that companionship may have been - had joked earlier, “It’s a proper road to Hell, it is - but where are all the ( Read more... )

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

- John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Lord Acton, in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton,1887“‘ -the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Amen.’” Quietly the priest ( Read more... )

[Another version of this story was published in a 1984 issue of David Nestle’s Popular Reality, and one in a 1983 issue of Rubindium Crystal fanzine]Once upon a time, there was a very neurotic young caterpillar named Alexander, called “Alec” by everyone who knew him. Immature and divorced from the realities of the world, he lived in a fantasy ( Read more... )

My kitten, Hannah, became fascinated by a decoration for Halloween I had dangling off a bookcase, namely a toy spider, all black wire legs and two big eyes and black cellophane covering its body and forming a sort of "fur" all over it. So I took it down and gave it to her -- the alternative was to have her pull the bookcase over trying to acquire ( Read more... )