Gravel Worm

Gravel Worm

Attack of the Gravel Worm?

I awoke this morning to the sound of something slithering through the gravel outside my bedroom window. It was a sound that I had heard all night long, but I was too tired (and scared) to venture outside in the dark. Now the sun shining and my curiosity had grown greater than my fear. I step outside and the sunlight was blinding. I could feel my eyes contracting and straining to adjust. When my vision finally did adjust I could see something bright and silvery metallic just sitting there basking in the warm desert sun. What was it? My first guess was that it was just some type of man-made garbage that had blown into my yard from one of the many construction sites in my spread out, but sprawling city. Then I remembered the slithering sound that has disturbed my sleep. I went back inside to grab my broom so I could poke the metallic thing that lay on my gravel, but when I returned with broom in hand, the thing had vanished.

(More to come)