Spiders!

By Troy McCombs

The family thought they'd moved into their dream house... they found that they may have prematurely moved into their own tombs. The spiders that populate this residence are unlike any that have come before. They're dangerous, they're smart, and there's a lot of them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Troy McCombs
• Release date: Jul 17, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301762743

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Spiders

by

Troy McCombs

Copyright 2013 by Troy McCombs

Smashwords Edition

(slightly updated)

Rachel's loud, piercing, incessant scream filled the house.

Josh, her father, dropped a moving box on his foot—if the box were any heavier the bones in his foot would have surely broke—and took off running through the hallway, up the stairs, around the landing at the top, and into the kids' new bedroom. His five-year-old daughter spun in circles and smacked herself, her scream keeping on. Is she having a seizure? Josh thought. Is she dying? Why was the poor girl freaking out?

Then he saw what had her in such distress: a bug crawling diligently on her arm. Nothing serious at all. Her shriek died out once she swatted the insect away, knocking it behind the bed. Now came the tears, her post-tramatic shock.

You okay? Josh sneered. It was always amusing for him to see his children freak out over such trivial matters. Last year he'd placed a rubber snake in his son's dresser drawer. When his boy opened it, he screamed at decibels higher than a Metallica concert.

Rachel was too upset to respond. The girl just stared at him, tears streaming, her delicate, sorrowful features pronounced by the bright daylight shining in through the three windows. The daylight also brought out the color in her cyber pink outfit—to an almost eye-damaging degree.

You do know that it's more scared of you than you are of it, don't you? His sneer kept on.

Footfalls... fast, hard, approaching, closing in. The whole house shook. What's wrong? What's wrong? Steve shouted as he burst into the room.

Oh, your sister just had the willies after a daddy-long-leg crawled on her.

It wasn't a daddy-long-leg!