Over the past few weeks something, or someone has been haunting me.
I have come to call it the Assassin Cicada.
I think I must put off funky cicada smells or something.
You see, every night I have to go outside after dark and close a door in order to keep the cat in and raccoons out.
Well, this used to be only somewhat hard because the door is always very difficult to close.
Recently it has become extra somewhat hard.
The reason being the Assassin Cicada.
It started one night when I was naively closing the door and didn't realize I was being watched.
Then all of a sudden out of no where came a buzzing and then a crash.
The assassin had arrived.
He started chasing me and I could barely get the door closed in time to escape him.
I know it sounds silly but he is not a normal cicada.
You're thinking he's a bug.
You're wrong.
He's a monster.
I used to play with cicadas when I was younger and have never really had a fear of bugs, until now.
Now I am scared of him.
He chases me and then guards the door so that I can't get back in.
Then when I go in he lurks by the windows and hisses and screeches at me.
He is huge and he runs into things including me.
He comes from no where every time I go out there.
I look around and he's no where to be found and then I open the door and he comes flying from across the porch.
After me at full speed.
I'm not kidding.
One time Joey caught him and he made the loudest unearthly sounds that all of us on the other side of the window were freaking out.
Well he has haunted successfully until last night.
Molly, my dog, bravely joined me to close the door.
When the assassin came up behind me in attack mode, she grabbed him in her teeth!
She grabbed him and ran out into the grass and set him down.
I ran after her and called her back because I didn't want her to eat him.
She has a sensitive stomach and I didn't want that coming up on my carpet.
Anyway, she saved my life.
I really didn't know if I would have survived another encounter.
I don't know if he's dead, in fact I'm quite sure he survived the attack by Molly.
But hopefully he'll consider it a warning if nothing else.
Hopefully this is the end of the Assassin Cicada attacks.
I have come to call it the Assassin Cicada.
I think I must put off funky cicada smells or something.
You see, every night I have to go outside after dark and close a door in order to keep the cat in and raccoons out.
Well, this used to be only somewhat hard because the door is always very difficult to close.
Recently it has become extra somewhat hard.
The reason being the Assassin Cicada.
It started one night when I was naively closing the door and didn't realize I was being watched.
Then all of a sudden out of no where came a buzzing and then a crash.
The assassin had arrived.
He started chasing me and I could barely get the door closed in time to escape him.
I know it sounds silly but he is not a normal cicada.
You're thinking he's a bug.
You're wrong.
He's a monster.
I used to play with cicadas when I was younger and have never really had a fear of bugs, until now.
Now I am scared of him.
He chases me and then guards the door so that I can't get back in.
Then when I go in he lurks by the windows and hisses and screeches at me.
He is huge and he runs into things including me.
He comes from no where every time I go out there.
I look around and he's no where to be found and then I open the door and he comes flying from across the porch.
After me at full speed.
I'm not kidding.
One time Joey caught him and he made the loudest unearthly sounds that all of us on the other side of the window were freaking out.
Well he has haunted successfully until last night.
Molly, my dog, bravely joined me to close the door.
When the assassin came up behind me in attack mode, she grabbed him in her teeth!
She grabbed him and ran out into the grass and set him down.
I ran after her and called her back because I didn't want her to eat him.
She has a sensitive stomach and I didn't want that coming up on my carpet.
Anyway, she saved my life.
I really didn't know if I would have survived another encounter.
I don't know if he's dead, in fact I'm quite sure he survived the attack by Molly.
But hopefully he'll consider it a warning if nothing else.
Hopefully this is the end of the Assassin Cicada attacks.
