5.30.2012

"The Return of Melanoplus spretus" in A Tea Party & Other Strange Stories





Table of Contents, story #5:
The Return of Melanoplus spretus

The North American Locust is back. Out of nowhere, a plague of locusts sweeps over Idaho. Perhaps, monocultures have provided the correct environmental conditions for their return. Regardless of the reason, they are hungry, and they stripping the land bare.
This story is my killer bug story. What could be worse than a wave of hungry locusts eating everything in their path. I have always liked nature horror movies. I have fond memories of watching movies about killer ants, killer bees, and killer fish with my father late at night. My father would get me out of bed after my mother had put my brother and me to sleep, and we would watch late night movies of all kinds. However, my favorite were the killer bug movies.


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