stories and bugs

A little girl who finished all of my horror tales today in class and began one of her own
” The was once a little girl who kept all the memories of her families in a leaf that she carried with her, because her family had all died.”

She went to the forest  that I had established in an earlier tale…

 

The tale…

Once there was a bride who died on her wedding day, but she wanted to be married so much she rose from her grave to meet her groom at their alter.

But she was dead, so her eyes were only empty sockets and her hands that reached toward her groom, were of bone. She tried to call to him, but, because she was dead, instead of words, all that issued from her mouth was dust.

When her love saw here he was so scared that he became petrified. Now petrified can mean very, very scared, but it can also mean ‘turned to stone.’ He was both. When the bride saw her lover was now a block of stone she began to weep. But, because she was dead, instead of tears, worms fell from her eyes. Now,  as you know from our garden, worms make the earth rich and fruitful. So when the worms fell onto the dust of her words, it too became fruitful. Out of the once dust, now rich soil plants began to grow, vines crawled up and encased her bridegroom. Small animals built their homes in his crevasses.

Birds came to dwell in the hollow eyes of the dead bride. They used shreds of her wedding veil to make their nests. A great jungle grew up around them and engulfed the village where the bride and groom had lived. All the creatures of the earth, that had been displaced by cities and now had nowhere to live  came to  the jungle. Often animals escaped from zoos or circus and ran to find refuge in the forest.

 

“and” said my student “the little girl who kept all the memories of her families in a leaf that she carried with her, because her family had all died. came to the forest to live. There she met a little boy who also had a leaf, with all the memories of his dead family inside it. Together they lived with the creatures in the forest.”

 

Whew!

 

today we sakinds of butterflies: gulf fritillary, w 5   yes 5!  monarchs, cabbage whites and a fiery Skipper.. also the coolest, biggest, yellowest crab spider I have EVER seen and the usual panoply of lady bugs larva and  a gulf fritillary laying eggs.

 

there was also a tale of a little girl who could build rainbows into heaven. A angel climbed down.and could only be see in starlight

she had hollow bones like a bird which were filled with magic which radiated out of her fingers when she touched someone.

She can only be seen under the moon and stars not in daylight.

But under the night sky she gleamed like a star… she meets the little girl and they play at night until the little girl grows up and can no longer see her. For grown – ups lose the vision of magic and miracles..

The angel wanders lonely until the once little girl, now woman  has a child who can see and play with the angel at night.

Some families don’t celebrate Halloween because it’s the devils bday. It was always my favorite