The Spider On My Porch
6 min readMar 8, 2024
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She appeared one morning a few weeks before Christmas. Bulbous, but near-missable and centered in mid-air at eye height. Her web, perhaps not the biggest I’ve encountered on my travels through jungly, remote spaces, but the biggest web I’ve seen here in Nicaragua.In truth, the biggest web I’ve ever discovered in an abode of mine.