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Vaya con Dios, Carlotta; Bienvenidos Facundo.

Well, Carlotta was (yes, was) female.  She placed her egg sac on the cactus pad and, after attaching it with the fine filaments of her silk, she left.  We haven’t found her body and we haven’t found her.  Further reading indicates that her life’s work is done after reproduction, and that her time here has [...]

Introduction: Facundo Chulo

As the sun’s reflection shines in the dark pupil of his bulging eye, and the mosaic lines that constitute the lovely iris pattern, Facundo Chulo sits on a rock in a small, somewhat stagnant pond filled with water lilies and pickerel weed. I see myself reflected in that same dark pupil as I snap photo after photo of my magnificent friend who keeps my garden bug-free and calls when he comes home after a jaunt.