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In the Dream I Had Anika Kotapally
by The Folio
This piece contains sensitive topics: - Arachnophobia
To the Lovely Spider Blocking Me from the Door, Please, oh please dear critter, please fucking move. Your creepy crawly little legs are haunting my dreams. I can’t even fall asleep because you and your two-centimeter stature are keeping me from entering my room. I know that you may have no home, but this room happens to be mine, so please, please dear critter, move before I cry. Maybe you have a story. Perhaps this home was yours long before my family and I inhabited it, if so, I am so very sorry, and if you would kindly write me back (after moving away from the door of course), I’d be more than happy to evacuate these webbed premises. However, dear critter, until this letter is responded to, I will take recognition in the assumption that this house has always been my home, and this room as mine, always mine.. I tried everything. I tried to speak to you, at which you began to crawl towards me, and I screamed and ran back downstairs, for I may have been too foolish to see that you were trying to reason. I tried to trap you in a Wawa coffee cup, but you laid your eight eerie legs on my index finger, and as our little tradition goes, I screamed and ran back downstairs. I tried to kill you with my slipper, but I don’t suppose either of us need to reconcile that… incident. Dear, dear spider, my parents left me alone this week for a business trip, entrusting me with the home they spent oh, so much money on, and I would really hate for them to return to nothing but a pile of ash and spider webs. That’d be incredibly unfortunate for all parties. So, dear critter, if you would be so kind as to move all of you and your eight eyes and legs away from my bedroom door, I’m sure we could come to a civil compromise! All the best,
A Very Concerned, Arachnophobic Inhabitant of the House P.S. PLEASE MOVE I SWEAR TO GOD I AM ABOUT TO BURN THIS PLACE TO THE GROUND YOU CREEPY, CRAWLY, BRINGER OF DEATH. Thank you for your consideration! Take care. :]
EXIT
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