Hole in the Wall: The Little Things. Chapter Two.
Theo greeted his neighbor as he slid in through the window, waving to the old mouse and his pet cockroach. the thing hissed in greeting as he pet its head.
American Mustelid Alpha - Episode 7, "I Was Taught These Guys Got Feelings" - Part 2
"he's a fucking cockroach!" he says to arron next to him, in disbelief. "i told you, i think he played his acting cards."
Ander - Chapter 7, Subchapter 81
Five daggers driving themselves deeper and deeper, five points of pain coalescing into a single, throbbing ball beneath his collar bones, and a sense of pressure, building, pressing him down, crushing him like a cockroach underfoot.
The Elder God
Ask a new york cockroach. far above us the occasional boat coasted by. even at this time of night the city never slept.
It sets my mind to wander...
I looked around, and suddenly there were more huddles, it seemed, receding from every still-working streetlamp like cockroaches. or like childhood monsters, lurking in the fringes of the dark. i saw eleazaria again as if for the first time.
Ander - Part 6: Subchapter 173
Five daggers driving themselves deeper and deeper, five points of pain coalescing into a single, throbbing ball beneath his collar bones, and a sense of pressure, building, pressing him down, crushing him like a cockroach underfoot.
By A Thousand Cuts
"People get them without thinking." Fran and her roommate were watching her pets chasing each other around their living room. "They get them for their kids." "That's the thing!" she concurred. "They think of animals as lesser lifeforms than people for...
TransPlant
* * * "So she never got to finish it," Fran's best friend had told her. "Halfway through," the jackal had shaken her head. "They wrote the rest based on her notes," her best friend had gone on. "I hate that." "You do?" Fran had tilted her...
Let Them Eat Cake
Fran had made it a habit to always make sure that her pets' treats would be kept in a place where her pets couldn't reach them. It'd been a safety precaution, for their own good. One day, somehow, though, she'd made a mistake and left them somewhere...
Kaiju ga Gotoku 3.6 - Red Eye
The smell of gengo tagasuki alerted him with his vile smoke from his particular brand, the cockroach sitting down beside him with his loud orange suit.
Crosswinds
'Housewives should make $115,000 a year.' \*\*\* "'But there are no pixies!' the housewife protested. 'There's no such thing as pixies!'" Fran's mom had told her this story more times than she could remember when she'd been a child. "'It was...
Spaced Out
When Fran had been a kid, she'd often stare out the window aimlessly while her mom would drive. "Come in, Huston." Every new building and landscape would become a new playground in which to let her mind wander. "Houston, we lost you." She probably...