Bats and Black Widows
Here is a story about bats at camp in Samantha’s words.
“We were having a talent show outside and some people were in the cabin and they came out running saying, ‘There’s a bat in the cabin!’ So everybody jumps up and sprints to the cabin and runs upstairs. We were all in a line trying to see the bat and the bat comes right at our heads and all of us in the line screamed and ducked. Then Alisha tried smacking it with a broom and Rachel was trying to force it out a window. Then we heard a scream from downstairs. We all ran downstairs and the bat was chasing Sister Salanoa and Sister Wilkerson around the cabin. Both of them were screaming and they were waving their hands above their heads. So, we got one bat out and there was still a bat upstairs, but it stayed in its little corner.
“On the same night Emily was lying down. There was a little shelf above the ground where she was laying. She suddenly screamed and ran to the other corner. She screamed, ‘There’s a black widow!’ And we all screamed and ran to the other corner with her. Then we overcame our fear and wanted to go see it. There was an egg sac with it. Alisha got the bug spray and kept spraying, spraying, spraying. Then she said a black widow prayer. The End.
It seems to me, all that happened at camp was screaming. Which is not so hard to believe, given all the gross creatures and all the hormones and emotions running rampant at camp.
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