Monday, March 12, 2007

The Gokiburi are back

[from Serenity]

I remember the first time I heard Will scream. We were staying in a cozy little guesthouse in the town of Tamarindo, Costa Rica. We were on our honeymoon, and had been taking turns getting ill for the last few days.

As I lay in bed, staring at the large wooden flying frog dangling from one corner of the room, I heard Will shout out a few uncertain, albeit uncomfortable screams from the shower. He was being joined in the small rock-wall shower by more than one almost palm-sized cockroach.


When we moved here to our lovely apartment in a rice paddy town in Japan, we had new suprises awaiting us, mostly in the kitchen. That was August.

Now it's March, and I heard Will let out a trembling "eeeeww!!!!!" the other day from the kitchen.

Oh, the cockroaches are coming back.

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