Something other then blood (Bloodbugs)
(For correspondence and updates, please go to : https://ricebowl70.blogspot.com/2025/08/updates.html ) If there was one thing that you had hoped died when the bombs bell, it was the mosquitoes. The blight of many an afternoon and evening, the insects had been the bane of your existence and when the nukes fell you assumed that they would die, if not from the heat , but from there also being nothing to feed off. So, when you managed to crawl out of the shelter and into the desert that once was Boston,you would be unpleasantly surprised to come across a giant mosquito hovering around a building, the insects having mutated to be the size of a dog although they still had their love for human blood. You had killed dozens of the BloodBugs as you wandered around the wasteland, the creatures being both frightfully strong and terribly persistent despite the fact that they seemed no more intelligent than the average radroach. You hadn't even acquired one for the collection of animals that you...