Nalp Wlap

i was in tears, snorting with laughter - the joy of reading the Klutz Phoenix series is great. here is the snippet that killed me for real. I opened my eyes. Just in time to see a spider the size of a small dog scurry across my shoe. I’m not proud of what happened next. With the memories of my last encounter with a spider flashing through my mind in stunning 4K resolution, I screamed. That was a natural and perfectly normal response. It was less natural to burst into a human torch and run straight through the steel wall. I wasn’t thinking about anything other than escaping the hairy eight-legged nope that was also running around in a full-blown panic. With both adrenaline and my magic surging through my body, I didn’t even feel the wall when I burst through the steel like it was made of paper. The soldiers buckled in the passenger seats yelled in shock. Not wanting to be shot, I called on my magic. It responded with a surge of power I’d not experienced before. My palms burned, and flames leaped from my hands. I caught movement from the corner of my eye. Murderous Miriam Webster had followed me into the passenger cabin. I thought it was moths that had an unhealthy addiction to flames. “Don’t come any closer!” I screamed since clearly the spider understood English and would respect my boundaries. I was wrong. Maybe the spider spoke Spanish or French, because the not-so-itsy-bitsy-spider rushed at me, crossing boundaries like it was the spider’s life purpose. I flung out my hand, and a ball of fire slammed into the spot I’d seen the spider. Seconds later, I caught a flash of the second hairiest legs I’d ever seen… beaten only by my legs during winter. Crap. Now that I wasn’t single, I’d have to shave year-round from now on. I flung another ball of fire in the spider’s direction but missed again. This was confirmed when the spider darted across the floor in front of me. With a scream, I rampaged through the cabin, cleverly disguised as a five-foot-tall roman candle. Throwing up both hands, I blindly slung fire at everything that moved. Screams rang in my ears, and the cabin lights flickered before cutting off completely. The plane rolled to the left, and I desperately grabbed for anything to stop read them all soo good.