/lit/ - Literature

>world where giant bug and plants grow to huge size
>first time posting please enjoy

Bounding from nowhere a horde of locusts, leaping onto the carcass, the plants, any other animal. Shredding exoskeletons with extended, leaf-like manipulators in the papillae it shovelled food back automatically, like a shredder.
Desperately the hooked roots grew and dipped in the air, looking for soil that wasn't there. Sometimes they caught ungainly flying insects on a swivelling hook and absorbing their juices through pore-like mouths.

Only a foot away one of the saurian locusts was caught unawares and found itself locked headfirst in a cluster of ever-growing roots, hunting out sustenance. The looping roots slipped cleanly under the eye sockets and once burrowed coldly popped both bulbous eyes like pus-bags. There was a brief struggle as the insect vibrated it's crystalline wings rapidly in fright, threatening to unplug the hooks in its eyes. But the roots held tight and had soon absorbed the brain and deactivated the struggle.

In this way all life sizzled on the searing plain. water spilled on a frying pan bringing forth a thousand tropical islands.

It was as the spindle arms of the tarantulas rose above the ridge and pressed the air, skin matted like hairy leather, that I slipped away, following the setting sun