A Terrifying Moment

By Carly

     Try to imagine a creature, a spider perhaps, that, it scares me to say, is as big as an adult's hand, its legs and all.  Black.  All but one yellow line on the back.  No, I bet you can't imagine it, but let's keep trying.  The legs were as thick as a thin twig and were black also.  There were two joints that connected three pieces of legs into one.  If you still can't imagine it, too bad.  Just do your best!  If you can picture it, it still probably isn't as scary as the one I saw.  

     We were walking down a shaded brick path in Kending, at the southern tip of Taiwan, when my Mom yelled, "OH! MY! GOSH!"  And there it was, sitting on its web devouring a fly.  A tiny orange spider, similar to the kind you find in your garden in the summer, scuttled on it's back.  WOAH!!  My whole body tensed up like a Basilisk (from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) had just petrified me.  It was truly terrifying!