I like animals. No, I love animals.

I like insects. They’re fascinating. For fun, I find the best close-up photography and post them on my WhatsApp Status just to freak out my friends. The horrified and crying emojis I get in response make my day.

Roaches are not one of those fascinating insects.

Neither are locusts.

Lo and behold, I walk into my mother’s room and find a battlefield of dead roaches and locusts. I almost screamed.

Apparently, Lizzy is an adept hunter.

Mom is laying casually in bed like it’s an everyday thing to have dead roaches and locusts all across your bedroom floor.

Roaches — I cannot stand roaches. One flew at me when I was 6. I’m 29 now. I have yet to recover from the experience. I want to run for the hills screaming when I see one. Sometimes I manage not to.

As for locusts, there’s just some evil creepiness to them. First thing I think of is the story of Mûsa and Fir’awn. Next, I think of A Bug’s Life. That was the movie that came out when I was 7. I can’t actually remember if the antagonists were actually locusts or not, but they sure looked like them. Evil things, stealing food from the ants. Now they’ve come up with a similar movie, except it’s bees versus hornets now. The hornets are the evil ones apparently.

I hate roaches. I hate locusts.

I thought the housekeeper might scream like I almost did when she went in to clean. She didn’t. She must be more hardy than I am.

Life has been pretty standard, other than the locust-roach invasion of my mother’s bedroom. I’ve been using this quarantine productively for the most part.

I will be getting my first story published under Islamic Reflections Ltd. It will be part of a multi-author volume. The deadline is October. I have completed 2 of 8 parts and have started on part 3. I was chosen for the humor genre, but my characters have a life of their own and it seems to be going into drama instead. Note, never restrict an author to a specific genre. It doesn’t work.

This story will not be available on Wattpad, so if you want it, you’ll have to buy the complete volume when it’s been published.

I have started up an author blog. I’ll be posting the covers, descriptions of my stories, and an excerpt for each on it. I’ve posted for two books so far.

You’ll notice I have posted three new books. Each book is the initiation of a side series connected to the main four books I’m currently writing (ARF, FFTS, MTC, HTW). I have not yet determined what the plot of the side story for FFTS will be or whom it will be about. Feel free to make suggestions. I may or may not use them, depending on if I feel inspired or not.

These stories are supposed to be short stories, i.e. one book rather than three to four volumes like the other ones. This Fear has 17 parts. 1 is complete. Twisted Heart has 7 parts. I’m still working on part 1. I’ve already started writing Deception of Sin, but I have not completed the outline yet.

I am posting daily snippets from my writing and editing on my Facebook page. You can add me if you wish to read them (females only).

I’m happy to say the roaches and locusts are gone. I would prefer spiders next time. A daddy long legs would make me very happy. Not dead though. I prefer them alive.

THE HUNTRESS