What’s The Buzz Code: A Short Story by Bryan Espiritu
Friday, November 14th, 2008
Lately I’ve been going back into my archives of writing and poetry to find inspiration. I hope it means something to those of you who take the time to read it.
Here’s a semi-old story I wrote a little while ago…
What’s The Buzz Code
A man once told me about a swarm of flies that had spread onto his kitchen counter top in the late 60’s. He spoke on how this was not your ordinary swarm of 5 or 6. It was blankets and sheets of them; smothering one another as he walked into his kitchen one summer with his window wide open and the drapes flowing in.
Disgusted by them, he swiped the surface with the back of his forearm, swatting them towards the wall and floor, hoping they would fly back out of the still opened window and find themselves in the garden out back. After a few attempts they very quickly re-gathered, covering the entire counter surface, eating at his food, and “staining” his sight.
He tried to hose them with sprays and watering cans, gather them in scoops and toss them to the trash, but again they managed to escape and blacken his marble counter in swarms.
One morning he coated the insides of 6 paper towel rolls with wet sugar. He soaked the outsides with sweetened tea and left them to dry. He placed the rolls on his counter top and watched as all the flies occupied the innards of the towers and piled upwards and upwards into them, never swarming about so long as enough sugar stayed inside those tubes. They tackled one another, and toppled over themselves for their food, not realizing how much he had been cooking on the stove nearby; pots and pots far too flowing to be used to feed a single grown man.
Soon after, he moved the rolls outside, and then to the curb, and then waited until they no longer could eat the hardened sugar and did all that they could to just scrape the surfaces.
They eventually became a threat he knew very well how to contain, but how foolish he is to still throw out his scraps.
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