There’s a spider that’s been sitting in a web outside my window in the exact same position for at least three days straight. Naturally, this means that instead of studying, I have to make up a story about her.
Skyler the Spider’s two hundred siblings had gone and weaved their own webs long ago, and her father was off fighting in a war between the local spider species, leaving Skyler and her mother alone to wait for his return.
Skyler dreamed of following in her siblings’ eight-legged footsteps, but her mother needed her. Who else would repair the web when a rude human broke it, or catch flies and mosquitos for her?
Then, one day, Skyler saw it from across the street: the most beautiful window she’d ever seen. With its turquoise curtain and clean glass, Skyler could tell that the human who owned it had impeccable taste.
But her mother refused to relocate, claiming that they must stay and wait for her husband, who could return any moment. Tired of never choosing herself first, Skyler trekked toward that magnificent window.
Finally in a web of her own, Skyler the Spider has happily sat outside that beautiful window ever since.
