Fiction Short
This is War!
Dedicated to Rachel Carson, The Mother of the Environmental Movement.
4 min readMay 30, 2019
“This is war, and you can tell your Queen I sai — , ah…ah, ahh… fff…u.c…k..chuuuu — Sniff”!
The explosion of wind and spittle punctuating my sneeze temporarily scattered the tiny, eight-legged pests across the white tiles.