Incredible but true! I can now morph into a mantis! Mother was right. It was painful at first. With a hundred and one practice I finally mastered the art of morphing.
My second lesson was to find food. Bugs tasted good to my mantis taste. I needed to catch the juiciest and the most nutritious to prepare me for the day of passage. When I say, passage, I am referring to the day when I will produce my egg, the ootheca where a nymph humantis will be formed.
The forest was wild and dangerous! I had to learn defense tactics of camouflaging. To blend in with the background so as not to be spotted by bigger predators. To keep still and motionless but watchful at all times.
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Mystery / ThrillerA family secret was waiting to be told. The mother was just waiting for the right time. "Was her child's birthday be that right time?" Carol asked herself. Her own Mom had told her on her twelfth birthday. Her mom's mom had done the same as all the...
