Fiction | June 01, 1987
from The Closest Possible Union
Joanna Scott
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How many species? Surely as many as there are stars in the heavens, from live glued onto a strand of hair to powerful gnats which can pierce a mans boot, from aphid cows enslaved by ants to weevils napping comfortably inside curled poplar leaves.
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