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DEBORAH TAPPER: Butterflies | 50-Word Stories

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Their radar shadow caused widespread panic, evoking everything from unknown weapons to aliens. Now they ghost down, shimmering and flamboyant, vivid patterns overwhelming the air. Settle into welcoming flowers, elegant mouthparts uncurling, uncaring. Why should they care? They’ve existed for 200 million years.

We’re merely a wingbeat in their time.


Deborah writes at an old desk surrounded by five hundred pet bugs.

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