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Animalia, Biology, Daily Prompt, Death, Fiction, Flora and Fauna, Insect, Life, McSweeney, Morality, Paralysis, Prisoner, Spider, Tarantula hawk, Wasp, Writing, writing challenge, Writing Exercises
I’m back and with an actual prompt. I took a break from them mainly cause I had other topics on my mind. When I saw this one, I thought, great, what am I supposed to do with that? So I read it again, and again, and by the third or forth reread I got my mini scene. It’s not for the easily offended. That said, here’s the prompt:
“A wasp called the tarantula hawk reproduces by paralyzing tarantulas and laying its eggs into their bodies. When their larvae hatch, they devour the still living spider from the inside out. Isn’t that fucked up? Write a short story about how fucked up that is.” – Dan Wiencek’s Thirteen Writing Prompts from McSweeney’s