A Fungus Among Us

Never in my life have I lived amongst so many creatures. Large, warty toads hop through the living room, hummingbird-sized wasp/moth things buzz my head like B-52 bombers as soon as the sun goes down, a spider with leg hair longer than my own lives in the shower, and for the past week an enormous cricket creeps out of a crack near the bathroom and proceeds to chirp at a decibel level that requires ear plugs to prevent hearing loss. I’ve been so consumed trying to corral these creatures, that I have failed to notice the very large mushroom sprouting in my living room. I was so disappointed that it wasn’t of the Morel variety or it would have been frying in a pan faster than my crazy cricket can disappear into his crack.