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"Bees and Fireflies"
SherpaDave 8324 desperate attention whore postings
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06-16-01, 02:17 AM (EST)
 
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"Bees and Fireflies" |
He feared only bees and fireflies, which was incomprehensible to Japhy. Japhy feared many things, fireflies among them, but his love of bees was great.
After school would let out, he would often go to Mrs. Pippin's flower garden and pet the bumblebees. They liked him very much; he never got stung.
He did get stung on occasion by wasps that made their nest in the plastic horse of his swingset, the swingset that nearly took off the end of his sister's pinkie. Japhy feared wasps absolutely, both in lower-case and capital letters. But not bees.
So Mark was a mystery to him, with his fear of bees and fireflies. The mystery of Mark attracted Japhy's curiosity, and thus, his friendship, almost immediately.
The two of them could often be found jumping on the Johnsons' trampoline until twilight, or until a bee invaded their play, whichever came first.
If a bee came, Mark would flee screaming, pushing the pedals on his banana-seat bike as fast and hard as his legs would allow. Japhy would be left to pet the bee, soothing the noble beast's jangled nerves.
If no bee came, the two would exit the trampoline with the first sign of darkness, when fireflies started their magical mating dance, lighting the night, an insects' Las Vegas. The two boys would catch them as they lit, and smear the glowing abdomens across the tarp of the trampoline, spelling dirty words in phosphorescence.
It was this act that gave them their fear of fireflies, for they knew that God saw them and would punish them for their acts. They feared fireflies simply because their delight in them was so great, so wicked, they could not resist their charms. In all sincerity, they referred to the glowing beetles as "Satan's bugs."
As time passed, the two boys' fears changed, but they always would recall the ecstasy and the fear brought on by spelling "shit" for all the heavens to see.
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VampKira 4433 desperate attention whore postings
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06-16-01, 02:29 AM (EST)
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1. "RE: Bees and Fireflies" |
Dave I loved this!! It is nothing short of fantastic! 
w.l.s.f.c.
Du ar min hjälte, Supermänniska 
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