My quarry was in sight. After years of searching, the biggest prize of all would soon be mine. Mine! I thought back on how I had arrived at this point.
It was purely by accident. I had been cruising the internet, casually checking out events of interest. A rather ordinary picture scrolled across the screen. I looked idly, preparing to move on when there, in the corner, I caught a glimpse of it. I thought I saw…but no, it couldn’t be. Could it? I froze the screen and tried to enlarge it, but at that magnification it was nothing but fuzzy pixels on the screen. I couldn’t tell. It LOOKED like it might be my quarry. But it was hiding, way in the back, behind the more ordinary specimens that had been the subject of the photo. I scanned the description, but nothing was said about the one in the back. Could it be that no-one else had spotted it? That nobody else realized how rare a specimen it was? Read the rest of this entry »
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