Ethan Burt

Sunset At Roseberry

Mark Diptera studied the fly trapped in a spider’s web. The web’s elastic frame bounced in response to the squirming victim, glinting reflections of the setting sun in its silk. Mark mused if the light display was strategic. Was the fly was sending an SOS? Was it rhythmically wriggling to communicate by Morse code? His only certainty was, it would not submit.