A Sad Song for a Young Tarantula in Sunday Morning Transport
Hello everyone! I have two new stories out this month, so this will be a short newsletter and I’ll be back next week with another link.
A Sad Song for a Young Tarantula in Sunday Morning Transport
Sunday Morning Transport is a really cool new short fiction venue from Fran Wilde (who’s novel Riverland is, by the by, fantastic) and Julian Yap. It’s a substack-based newsletter which sends out a weekly short story—some free, others limited to paying subscribers. A Sad Song for a Young Tarantula is one of their paywalled stories this month, but I have a link for my subscribers that offers a two months free subscription (if you want to read it and then cancel—although I recommend reading some of the other stories while you’ve got it!)
A Sad Song for a Young Tarantula is based on the relationship between the Colombian Lesserblack Tarantula and the Dotted Humming Frog. Yes, the tarantulas described in the stories are real and they really do keep “domesticated” frogs as pets / egg guardians. And daughters sometimes inherit their mother’s burrows and the frogs to go with them. This story took an absolutely wild amount of research given its length, but I’m very happy to have written it. I think, also, you will be happy to have read it.
That’s all for now. See you next week!