The Day When I Got Hatched

[greygirlbeast]

On this day, in 1964, in a deep-sea hydrothermal vent, almost ten thousand feet down along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, I squiggled forth from beds of giant tube worms and albino crustaceans. I drew my first watery breath, sucking in superheated brine, belched forth by black smokers and loaded with nutritious sulfides and acetyl thioesters, and then

Comments

[ex_kaz_maho]

Happy Hatching Day, dear Aunt Beast!

May there always be cake in your life. (And stomach.)

Kaz
x

[girfan]

Happy birthday!

[jdack]

Happy anniversary of the occasion of your emergence.

[ghostrunner7]

Happy Anniversary of your expulsion from the sea floor!

[papersteven]

One day I'll provide an actual list.

You already have! I believe it was for The Book of Lists: Horror.

Have a very happy birthday. And congradulations on finishing Chapter Two.