There was a spider on the ceiling. The boy didn’t know when it got there, huddled in the corner between two walls of his living room. He just looked up one day and there it was. It wasn’t a big spider. All balled up like this, it must have been smaller than his fingertip, he guessed. He didn’t dare get close enough to check. He didn’t like spiders, creepy little things that they are, and he certainly didn’t like them being so close. He would always glance at them as they ling