Here is a Wednesday story for you. If you would like to read the rest, click the link at the end and you can download it. Let me know what you think. Enjoy – MisterWriter
Wasp Men: Guts and Glory
by Andre' Gensburger
I watch the wasp flit around the back yard, checking out the nooks and crannies to be found under the overhang before zipping off. Like a fighter jet coming on for carrier landing, it flies with its carriage hanging low, stinger like the hook on a fighter that grabs the deck wire to stop it from going off the edge of the carrier, only this one won't be stopped.
Back again it passes my head, menacing because I have been taught that it is territorial and does not give a shit about my territory; and the fact that as spring slipped into summer heat and the onslaught of the wasps proved insurmountable, I was beginning to feel like a minority at racist rally, always on the lookout for the attack that would be aimed my way but never knowing where it would come from.
I stared it through its zigs and zags, my weapon loaded, oozing excess toxins out of the nozzles that I had adapted for this hunt, and caught it in the gun sights, trying for that Mister Miyagi ballet of movements that would allow me to Zen in on the kill; the fucker had to land sometime.
Pulling hard on its ailerons in snapped upward in an illegitimate movement from Top Gun, you know the one where crazy Tom Cruise pulls on the speed flaps and.…
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(and yes I know the photo is a bee and not a wasp…)
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