The Spider Who Ate the Elephant
You may have heard tales of spiders moving into a town and covering it with their silk. People seem to ignore spiders until this happens, at least as long as they don’t see the spiders. Then they wake up one day to go about their important human lives as they always do, but they find their town transformed.
The grass, the trees, even their big, powerful cars are draped in layers of shimmering, white silk.
“What could have done this?” they cry. “No person has done such a thing, and no other creature could possibly be so powerful as to disrupt us in our busy lives!”
One of them, often a child, finally whispers…
“It was spiders.”
“Spiders?” they cry. “No creature so tiny could do such a thing to us.”
And yet it is so. One spider cannot do such a thing, i
