The Lodestar Contest

Jacob has been diagnosed with Katsaridaphobia. A new neighbor is moving in next door and he notices them carrying in their belongings in large cardboard boxes. Knowing cardboard boxes are haven's for roaches, he is terrified, especially when he thinks he sees a large hissing cockroach peak between the cardboard lid flaps.

When he runs back into his apartment, shaking, his imagination fills in the details of the roach he thought he saw. His paranoid mind gives the roach humanistic characteristics, such as a menacing smile.

To armor his apartment against the roaches entry, he puts poison in every crevice within his apartment. Feeling properly protected from the filthy bug, he relaxes into his sofa and flips on the television. Just when he has allowed nerves to settle, he believes he hears the roach hiss somewhere in his apartment While he is frozen in terror, he imagines the roach talking. The roach is making threats of invading his space and even worse, it says it has friends.

While Jacob is in his apartment, facing consequences to his fears, his new neighbor's open the box, Jacob thought he saw the roach in. An amber colored marble trapped within the lid flaps makes a clanking noise when it falls onto the floor.




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