myrmepropagandist on Nostr: The man gazed back at her, calm, perhaps a little sad, then slowly he opened his ...
The man gazed back at her, calm, perhaps a little sad, then slowly he opened his mouth--
And with great deliberateness he stuck out his tongue!
At first I wondered at this gesture of absurd defiance, but then I looked more closely at this tongue.
It was the pink color of a human tongue, but the texture was all wrong... segmented. And near the tip? There were two beady little black eyes.
He had an isopod for a tongue!
"No wonder you understood them." I thought with horror. 12/
And with great deliberateness he stuck out his tongue!
At first I wondered at this gesture of absurd defiance, but then I looked more closely at this tongue.
It was the pink color of a human tongue, but the texture was all wrong... segmented. And near the tip? There were two beady little black eyes.
He had an isopod for a tongue!
"No wonder you understood them." I thought with horror. 12/