We found this in our bathroom. When I first saw it, I was really scared. My husband came over and picked it up with a tissue. We’ve been staring at it for twenty minutes trying to figure out what it is. Does anyone know?
it was almost embarrassing. Not a monster, not a parasite, not a breaking-news catastrophe—just a beetle pupa, caught mid-metamorphosis on our living room floor. All that dread had been aimed at a fragile, sleeping thing, quietly becoming something else. Our laughter came with a flush of relief and a sting of recognition. How many other “threats” in our lives are really just transformations we don’t yet understand?
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