Saturday, 5 January 2019
Ghost Spider
I’m lying in bed staring at the
ceiling. A bedside reading lamp points up at the ceiling illuminating a cobweb
waving across the white frack-painted ceiling. As I move my hand, it moves too,
swaying from the resistance that my hand makes. It’s as if the web itself is
moving. But I can’t see a spider! Is it camouflaged? Does it have chameleon
abilities, or is a natural white to match that of the ceiling? Or is it a ghost
that’s simply left its trail behind? Later on I can make out the web dangling
from the ceiling swaying backwards and forwards with a small white dot at the
bottom. The web seems to line up perfectly with a join between the paper in the
ceiling. And a twist of the light reveals more strands moving across the top of
the curtain rail. Could something have gotten through? I think I’ve just
discovered how on average we swallow eight spiders a year in our sleep.
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