Sex unusual - Praying Mantis and Neotrogla

Don't know what Praying Mantis mating equipment is like. Not all the mated males lose their heads. And then there's this.

https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2006/05/03/1629673.htm?site=science%2Ftalkingscience%26topic%3Dlatest
and then this

The female Neotrogla mounts the male, which is already a departure from the usual MO of animal sex. She then penetrates him with a gynosome, which is very similar to a penis, especially because the membrane that composes it hardens before she does this. The cringe-inducing part is next: this gynosome is so long that it pierces the male’s abdomen. That’s not all. It has hooks at the end that attach to pouches inside the male’s body, so the two are quite literally fastened together. The male then transfers his sperm to a duct inside his body, and she finishes the job by harvesting it into her own body. Scientists think that the pouches inside the male’s abdomens developed over time as a way to reduce the pain of the process
https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/sci/move-praying-mantis-bug-sex-weirder.html

Prompt - A Walk in the Fog

Peeping Tom

I once lived in a sort of bad neighborhood, in a very tiny house with just myself and my brother who was rarely there. It was an old house, so it was a little creepy and also felt like anyone who wanted to could have broken in. One night, I was getting ready for bed. It was pretty late on a hot summer night and we didn’t have A/C, so I opened my bedroom window.

I began to slip out of my clothes and change for bed. As soon as I put my pajama shirt on, I heard something that will forever stay seared into my brain. A low, masculine voice said, “Let’s see that chest again.” I think my whole body stopped working for at least five seconds while I absorbed the fact that there was a creepy man spying on me from right outside my window and I was alone in a house that he could easily get into if he so wished.

It was the first and only time in my life that I have ever called the local authorities. I had a full-blown panic attack while waiting for the officers to show up, and the very nice dispatch lady had to calm me down on the phone while I waited. On the bright side, it was an apparently slow night for the officers and they sent no less than three cars to come and help me.

https://www.factinate.com/experience/exp-beh-creepiest-weirdos/38?fact=3&utm_term=avantis&utm_source=bp&utm_medium=fact_fb_bp_acbob4_creepyfellabehDP_d_broad_SD10&utm_content=fbkd&fbclid=IwAR10S608OJSUfqrvyNPfOOPRZNI9My8WEi-lAfq7jaGNUR0ac6gCCAP6Sko

Prompt - Like A Moth To The Flame

I have always been a lanky and non-muscular man. Needless to say, when I came face to face with a big dude holding a knife in the middle of the night, I was pretty much screwed. I was walking home from my closing shift on a warm summer night last year when he stepped out of the shadows and demanded my wallet. I didn’t immediately reach for it, as I guess I was in shock.

He stepped closer and yelled at me to empty my pockets. When the realization set in that this guy was ready to take my life over the meager $20 I had on me, a white moth fluttered between us. To my surprise, the mugger began screaming and swinging his knife at the bug, which only caused it to fly around more sporadically.

Those fierce eyes which had been looking at me just a few seconds ago were now shrouded in terror and not breaking their focus on the moth. I took karate lessons for a few years when I was a young boy, so I took advantage of the large man desperately flailing at a small insect and performed the number one move recommended by all reputable martial arts schools. I ran like a madman.

https://www.factinate.com/experience/exp-beh-creepiest-weirdos/91?fact=3&utm_term=avantis&utm_source=bp&utm_medium=fact_fb_bp_acbob4_creepyfellabehDP_d_broad_SD10&utm_content=fbkd&fbclid=IwAR10S608OJSUfqrvyNPfOOPRZNI9My8WEi-lAfq7jaGNUR0ac6gCCAP6Sko

Vampires have their uses