Horror Haiku Club Prompt

May 15, 2024

Eunice aphroditois is a type of ocean worm growing up to ten feet long and hiding under the sand.

Your prompt is BOBBIT WORM.

Technicolor worm
Waits for prey with open jaws
Snatch and devour

It senses prey with five antennae and can reproduce by splitting itself into multiple parts.

May 15Liked by Honeygloom

A cousin to an inch worm, Bobbit takes a bow

Three yards long, antennae sense prey, feeds.

A split personality divides, multiple ways

Kindred arrive, slice/dice then grow apart

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I’m thinking of Lorena Bobbitt (remember her?) when I write:

Sharpened to a point

Knife cuts through penile member

Bobbit worms devour