07/26/05

A young woman bends to peer into a crib, and suddenly the crib turns into an aquarium. She is too far bent over and her feet dangle in the air. She cannot pull herself or her head out of the water. Suddenly an onslaught of bubbles from the unseen depths rush to caress her panicked face. Brunette hair swirls in the water, dancing with the turbulent water. And following the bubbles are hundreds of cockroaches, desperate to cling to her skin’s surface. And she can do absolutely nothing to stop their progress. Tangled tendrils of hair and kicking insect legs – bubbles of air and screaming terror. And there she drowns. Mouth agape, leaving a cavernous entrance for the roaches to claim . . .