The Journal Of Missed Connections
Next Door, a six-foot long two-hundred pound centipede that spit acid and live on small furry creatures hiding in the World Forest did not find the nest. The babies grew to full size and hopped to the water, and the smallest one was not taken into the centipede to be released when it was ripped open later by a much larger centipede. The smallest one would not grow up in the Sticky Tree, and the smallest one would not meet the larger female who would draw his blood high, and they would not mate and produce the New furry creature who would then evade the centipedes and survive in the Cliff Hole to make a new tribe. This would lead to the Very End Of The World much, much later when Costakci failed to see the shape in the dish and therefore did not have the Dream. Such a small thing to end the world, a mere molecule missed by the razor-sharp sniffer of the great predator centipede. Sometimes that is all it takes in the early days.
