Interspecific Coalesce - Flesh Consumed

Torpid sewers harboring hexagonal clusters of eggs

Incubating in a cesspool of humid human excretions

Cylindrical eggs hatching in random bursts

Arilus Cristatus Gigantus

Breeding exponentially, swarms of massive predacious insects

Eclipse the sun, raining down from the sky

Arthropodic nomads flood the streets

Misanthropic beings scavenging the land

Targeted, the predator envelops the prey

Cocooning the human within its wings

The victim claws at the ground in attempt to escape

With sloth-like mechanical motions

The captor draws the human back into embrace

The insect’s hypodermic beak extends into position

Injecting enzyme-laden saliva into the bloodstream

The human frozen in paralysis, immobilized, paralyzed

Soft tissue and organs dissolve into emulsion

Future victims spectate the killing

The torture is seen through translucent membranous wings

The insect holding the victim in his final embrace

Caressing him through his passing, then gorging on the human slosh within

The body withering to the decayedness of decades in mere seconds

The skin cycles through the color spectrum of rot

Shriveled, frail, and expunged of all nutrients

The dry husk of the human cadaver lay discarded in a sea of bodies