Bug vs. Foot

[nonionay]

This morning I was walking to work, and noticed a rock in my shoe. Whatever. I tapped my foot to move it to a better spot, and continued to work. Once there, I forgot about the rock for fifteen minutes or so. Then the rock bugged me, so I took off my shoe and dumped out a half-inch long insect. The little bug was still alive, if a bit shorter in a leg or two. I tried to put it outside, but it fell out of my hand and into the dark area at the bottom of the stairs filled with bug-shaped rocks and dirt. It's a tough little thing, surviving a quarter mile traveling beneath my foot, so I hope it makes it to pass on it's sturdy genes.

And now I can feel a phantom bug in my shoe.