Photo copyright Rochelle Wisoff Fields
They had called her “Miss Muffet”, oh so many years ago. They thought it funny, her running away and crying behind the pump house, sucking on the swollen finger that would soon show the spider’s angry sting.
No one had considered her since. Not a single child commented on her sudden affinity for arachnids. No concerned mother queried her parents about her odd, luminous eyes, her preference for the dark.
She was grown now, with a husband. He labored for hours on the most delicate of artistic pieces – his gifts to the world. She liked to watch him work, thinking of their hundreds of children about to go off into the world. No doubt they would frighten many a child.
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Karen B. Nelson 
Amusing take on the prompt. Thanks for spelling my name right. 😉
so that’s how you get to grow up to be a mater spider…
BTW I would have left Wishoff the way it was….
Enjoyed the story. Randy
Nice 🙂
Delightfully creepy, an entertaining read- and I am in horror of the hundreds of children.
Ooooo, creepy! I wonder how many of her childre are going to infect others? Spiderpocalypse!
Revenge is a dish best served cold…and unexpectedly. Unique twist. I like the “Miss Muffet” and her husband’s artistic work. 🙂 Very nice.
BTW, I was a teacher (at a Lutheran high school) and home schooled our girls through high school. It’s an interesting combination, isn’t it? Are you still home schooling?
Definitely! I feel like I get the best of both worlds – the benefits of having trained as a teacher and worked with hundreds of kids, but the delight of getting to learn along with my own children and use all the best methods for their learning styles. I do get a lot of raised eyebrows from both camps, though – each side seems to think I’m a traitor!
Thanks for stopping by!
ooh, I love the taste of revenge in this story, and the fact that she seems happy with the change.
Hi Karen,
A well-wrought metamophosis story and I really liked the voice and getting into the arachnid POV. Great fun! Ron
That is so cute!
Muwahahaha. Spiderman’s dark, feminine counterpart.
What subtle creepiness you employed to write this story. I loved it!
Dear Karen,
The voice in this story seems to come from a forbidding place and the thoughts, nutured in the dark for years, are chilling. Lovely foray across the web this week.
Aloha,
Doug