aiya-spya-with-my-little-eyeya's captive
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it was friday morning and miss can was getting ready for work. she had just spread her tiny socks over her wide feet and was walking across her bedroom to the door, when she took two involuntary shuffles backwards and sucked in her breath in a kind of inward shudder/gasp. as she would later tell sarah-lynnelizabeth, there was a monster in her room. this was no under the bed drooling, be-fanged, learing, waiting to grab you kind of monster from your childhood. nonono, this was a large, plump, soft and scuttling, hairy, long-legged, belly dragging, hideous wolf-spider. frozen in her tracks, she wondered how long the stealthy beast had been there and then when her thoughts turned to uglier things such as recent spider bites on her calves and the utter repulsiveness of a wolf spider being near her, let alone on her, she found the courage to inch past it, facing it at all times so as to know if it moved or not. at the door at last she took one last glance. it hadn't moved. this was like a staring contest. lauraann rushed into the living room where sarah-lynnelizabeth and aiya-spya were sleeping. she couldn't wake them. why wouldn't they wake on their own, this very minute? instead of screaming she went into the furnace room as if to retrieve some drying clothes. the thing was, she had no clothes to retrieve, so she stood there a moment and then came out again. flustered, she went back into her room to check on the spider. he was still there in all his horrid glory. at every new angle she looked at him, the more repulsive he became. suddenly she remembered a story her boss lisa had told her. lisa and her sister would put an empty yogurt container over the spiders, and keep it down with a brick and their dad would find them and kill the spiders when he came home. lauraann had a spider killer in her home too. she ran to the pantry, grabbed one of leishy-loo's empty yorgurt carcasses, ran back and stood in front of the beast. alas, she realized the yogurt container wouldn't do. wolfie was between the lamp base and the lamp cord and the container was too big. back in the kitchen she found a pasta sauce jar that would work. back in the bedroom with a container that would work lauraann was paralyzed with fear. there was basically no way she could come any nearer the spider than she was at that moment. she retreated into the kitchen and put her nervous energy to work and put dishes away. finally sarahlynnelizabeth and aiyapsya stirred and awoke. relived to share the terror lauraann unburdoned herself. sarahlynnelizabeth was unequal to the role of saviour, but aiyaspyawithmylittleeyeya was made of different stuff. she took the jar and wobbled (she tended to walk with an unsteady gait in the mornings) into the bedroom with lauraann...garbagecan. laura pointed out wolfie to aiya. aiya bent over and approached him with the jar. the exact moment that the spider scuttled forward towards her clothes basket was the exact moment lauraann ran from the room gagging with the dizgustingness of it all. a few minutes later aiya also ran out convulsing with her own gags. but she did it. wolfie was trapped and remains there to this day. the glass jar distorts him and makes him even more horrible, if that is in fact possible. what's more, he's still alive.
the end
it was friday morning and miss can was getting ready for work. she had just spread her tiny socks over her wide feet and was walking across her bedroom to the door, when she took two involuntary shuffles backwards and sucked in her breath in a kind of inward shudder/gasp. as she would later tell sarah-lynnelizabeth, there was a monster in her room. this was no under the bed drooling, be-fanged, learing, waiting to grab you kind of monster from your childhood. nonono, this was a large, plump, soft and scuttling, hairy, long-legged, belly dragging, hideous wolf-spider. frozen in her tracks, she wondered how long the stealthy beast had been there and then when her thoughts turned to uglier things such as recent spider bites on her calves and the utter repulsiveness of a wolf spider being near her, let alone on her, she found the courage to inch past it, facing it at all times so as to know if it moved or not. at the door at last she took one last glance. it hadn't moved. this was like a staring contest. lauraann rushed into the living room where sarah-lynnelizabeth and aiya-spya were sleeping. she couldn't wake them. why wouldn't they wake on their own, this very minute? instead of screaming she went into the furnace room as if to retrieve some drying clothes. the thing was, she had no clothes to retrieve, so she stood there a moment and then came out again. flustered, she went back into her room to check on the spider. he was still there in all his horrid glory. at every new angle she looked at him, the more repulsive he became. suddenly she remembered a story her boss lisa had told her. lisa and her sister would put an empty yogurt container over the spiders, and keep it down with a brick and their dad would find them and kill the spiders when he came home. lauraann had a spider killer in her home too. she ran to the pantry, grabbed one of leishy-loo's empty yorgurt carcasses, ran back and stood in front of the beast. alas, she realized the yogurt container wouldn't do. wolfie was between the lamp base and the lamp cord and the container was too big. back in the kitchen she found a pasta sauce jar that would work. back in the bedroom with a container that would work lauraann was paralyzed with fear. there was basically no way she could come any nearer the spider than she was at that moment. she retreated into the kitchen and put her nervous energy to work and put dishes away. finally sarahlynnelizabeth and aiyapsya stirred and awoke. relived to share the terror lauraann unburdoned herself. sarahlynnelizabeth was unequal to the role of saviour, but aiyaspyawithmylittleeyeya was made of different stuff. she took the jar and wobbled (she tended to walk with an unsteady gait in the mornings) into the bedroom with lauraann...garbagecan. laura pointed out wolfie to aiya. aiya bent over and approached him with the jar. the exact moment that the spider scuttled forward towards her clothes basket was the exact moment lauraann ran from the room gagging with the dizgustingness of it all. a few minutes later aiya also ran out convulsing with her own gags. but she did it. wolfie was trapped and remains there to this day. the glass jar distorts him and makes him even more horrible, if that is in fact possible. what's more, he's still alive.
the end
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