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Moth Friend [NYC 7.8.13]

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Moth fluttering in the corners of the room, brown-paper wings vibrating, too fast for the eye to see. Dives and swoops. Bedroom screams and tousle-haired girl wrenches open door. Look up and enter room with tissue box. Moth large and fluttery but beautiful. Hello friend. Water bottle – no cups around – and sleeping-notice sign, moth clinging to white paint. Capture, watch out for legs. Wrench open window, mouth of bottle won’t fit into the strip of night air. Wrench window wider. Friend crawling inside blue plastic, stumbling towards the light and away from the warm darkness. Fly, friend! Friend huddling at base of bottle despite frantic attempts to free him. Shaking bottle, friend clinging. Damn you, friend! Just trying to help! Shine white light at bottle’s mouth. Withdraw, afraid of losing grip on light and watching it trail to ground below. Friend cautiously explores. Shake. Hold on. Goddamn it, friend! Be free! Laughing, holds window open. Laughing, holds bottle. Shakes in frustration, flurry of motion. Bring bottle inside, close window. Glance inside. “Shit, it’s still in the bottle!” Fling open window, bottle mouth bites into night air again. Jesus, friend! Finally, hand outside window, gripping bottle tight, and flail wildly. Still in the bottle? No. Friend is free.
Freewrite: It happened, that’s all I’m going to say. As did what was probably too much swearing. A good deal of this is dialogue, and a good deal more makes no sense whatsoever unless you were there. I don’t even know what style you’d call this.

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QuiEstInLiteris's avatar
Hee. I have this exact conversations with spiders every couple of weeks. Usually, though, I actually have to go to the kitchen for a glass. 

I like the choppy, steam-of-consciousness style. Like I said, it sounds exactly like my interactions with arachnids.