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.
6 comments:
Oh deary, I fear I am the only one who understand what danger you (and I probably) are in. The Assassin Cicada came after me the other day. I had to run and try to get in another door because he was PACING BACK AND FORTH in front of the kitchen door! Tessa, who was, at the time, on the telephone with me, is a witness to how traumatized I was.
Good luck sis,
Everly
I know how you feel.
Last week I was innocently sitting on the bench by the pond when here he came out of the tree above and tried to run in to me!!!
I took off running and fell in the gravel!!! Lucile I had lost him by now and I was safe!!!
F.C.
I really think little monster iis trying to be your friend....like Frankeinstein
Ahhh you have a new blog that you never told me about? Shame on you! 'Course, looks like you update about as much as me, but still.
Regardless, I am just about the most excited person alive right now because I get to see you in...is it 4?...days!!!!!!!!!!
One year, Deary. One year.
My only question is...have you fully recovered from the incident of which you last wrote???
Sister Everly
Cicadas have a long proboscis under their head that they use for feeding on tree sap, and if they attempt to inject it into a person's body it can be painful, but is in no other way harmful. This sting is not a defensive reaction and should not be mistaken for aggression, it is extremely uncommon, and it usually only happens when they are allowed to rest on a person's body for extended periods of time.
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