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Are Readers Growing Tired of New Urban Fantasy?
trboturtle:
What's really funny is I wrote a scene with a giant spider in my UF novel....
As for Spiders, I'm so bad, that I've never been able to watch the movie "Eight Legged Freaks" for more than five minutes and if spiders are on the screen , I am gone!
Craig
R. S. Leergaard:
When I was in Okinawa I had a cane spider living in my house. The first time I saw it out of the corner of my eye was while getting a drink of milk from the fridge. It freaked the hell out of me, the thing was bigger than my open hand.
I emptied half a can of raid on the thing, and I swear to Zuul it shrugged at me. It just went 'meh'. So I made a deal with it (there was no way I was going to smush something that big). I told it "If you leave me alone, I'll leave you alone." Besides it ate the giant flying roaches common in Okinawa, so I did get one benefit from the deal.
It worked out fine until the inspector came to check my household goods when I was transferred. I forgot to warn her about the spider ::) and she met it alone in a different room. I've never before or since heard such a scream. ;D
cenwolfgirl:
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*runs and hids* you win
Zuriel:
--- Quote from: R. S. Leergaard on June 01, 2012, 01:00:07 AM ---When I was in Okinawa I had a cane spider living in my house. The first time I saw it out of the corner of my eye was while getting a drink of milk from the fridge. It freaked the hell out of me, the thing was bigger than my open hand.
I emptied half a can of raid on the thing, and I swear to Zuul it shrugged at me. It just went 'meh'. So I made a deal with it (there was no way I was going to smush something that big). I told it "If you leave me alone, I'll leave you alone." Besides it ate the giant flying roaches common in Okinawa, so I did get one benefit from the deal.
It worked out fine until the inspector came to check my household goods when I was transferred. I forgot to warn her about the spider ::) and she met it alone in a different room. I've never before or since heard such a scream. ;D
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Hahaha...this is too good - and way too creepy! The poor inspector. I feel that person's trauma. :o
R. S. Leergaard:
I didn't blame her for screaming, I yelled too, the first time I saw it. They're not poisonous, they're just freaking huge. :-\
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