“You fool,” said his friends. “Those are stories written by folks who don’t know animals. A cranewife will peck out your eyes, a sealwife’s sharp teeth will be the end of you, and you – you have embraced a venomous creature and held her to your breast.”
And indeed, she poisoned everything around her, resentful as she was at having been captured.
“That woman,” the man lamented, “that woman’s gonna be the death of me.”

“You fool,” said his friends. “Those are stories written by folks who don’t know animals. A cranewife will peck out your eyes, a sealwife’s sharp teeth will be the end of you, and you – you have embraced a venomous creature and held her to your breast.”

And indeed, she poisoned everything around her, resentful as she was at having been captured.

“That woman,” the man lamented, “that woman’s gonna be the death of me.”

NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY