Ever since she read that the average human swallowed at least five spiders in their life
she hadn't slept, too concerned with eliminating any potential hide of theirs.
Her house as void of everything bar a mattress, even the cupboards had been torn from
the walls and thrown onto the ever growing pile in the back garden.
Despite her careful measures she could feel the spiders crawling down her throat every night.
She felt their thick, hairy legs on her arms, her legs, her face.
More often than not she would wake screaming and tearing at her own skin to remove them.
Every tie they would scuttle out of sight before she could see them properly.
She knew she wasn't dreaming them, the house was covered in their webs.
The sound of their limbs creaking and fluttering around followed her everywhere.
Her measures took a turn for the worse as she tracked their noise into the walls and began to
tear then down, removing once last obstacle between her and an empty home.
She took out a load bearing wall on the ground floor and sent the whole place down.
By the time they found her corpse it had been almost a month.
Her face was half torn to shreds, judging by her hands it was self inflicted.
The morgue found the strangest thing, her entire digestive track was clogged by spider webs.
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