We found this in our bathroom. When I first saw it, I was really scαred.

truth finally arrived through a reverse image search, it was almost embarrassing. Not a monster, not a parasite, not a breaking-news catastrophe—

just a beetle pupa, caught mid-metamorphosis on our living room floor. All that dread had been aimed at a fragile, sleeping thing, quietly becoming something else.

Our laughter came with a flush of relief and continue reading …