Martin Lipman

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“Moth in the Bell Jar” by Martin Lipman

Submitted to Contest #188

When I was a boy growing up in the village of Burbage in the East Midlands, we would trap Elephant-Hawk Moths under our glasses of lemonade in the summer. When one of us caught a moth under our glass, all the other boys would gather around and watch the brightly coloured creature flit and flutter helplessly, dashing its wings against the glass, scrambling for a way out. We loved watching the pink and green shades of the moth’s wings dither, making pretty patterns in the air. Sometimes, we would let the poor creature out but, on many occasion...

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