Tuesday, March 31, 2020

A Snail's Tale

Photo by Zdeněk Macháček on Unsplash
Prompts = Equinox, Escargot, Escape
“C’mon family! Not far now!”
I’m lying, of course; everything’s far away when you’re a snail. That whole “snail’s pace” thing? Totally true. But I have to encourage my family, all 800 of us, to safety.
It struck me as I lay in my comfy shell (my one for work chafes, but it suits the suits) that the transiting of the Sun was the reason for the Great Turkey Invasion twice yearly. The Equinox, it turns out, turns innocent snails into tasty escargot for hungry birds. We’re escaping the slaughters and moving somewhere safer.
Maybe turtles will be better neighbours.

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