SPIDERS

BANQUET

BEQUEST

Black Pearl

Spectrum Wave Publishing

Copyright@2026

The spiders came out to play, and released themselves out of their shadows from companions’ beds. From the North mangrove a pipleline down under the path, they came flirting with the Anansi spider ( island woman tinted in disguise) who gave them the rider’s passage. They moved like thieves in the night, and a native man stopped his own sight—blinded, he failed to see his people brought down by the same divisions of language, ethnicity, and race. But these were spiders who resided in different places.

On 1/3/2025, after the ball drop, they spun him

Into a tightly coiled spindle. The man

was captured b ...