Hopper Case Files: Epilogue
(This October, InsectPOD is celebrating with a special “creepy story”, the Hopper Case Files, told in installments. New readers should start with the first case file, The Missing Mayfly.)
Hopper made it out of the web, and was given an award by the mayor for ridding it of not one but two mob bosses. He currently works as a freelance private investigator.
Doris Mactans is serving 17 consecutive life sentences in a maximum security prison.
With the death of both Anarcha and Arga, Karen Stalk’s testimony to help bring them down on racketeering charges was no longer necessary. She was reunited with her husband and together they have several hundred offspring, with thousands of grandchildren on the way.
Lyle the Doorman sold his story of Black Widow Doris to the tabloids and made millions. He has postponed his metamorphosis indefinitely in order to pursue a career in acting.
Arga “Threeface” Trifasciata is dead, eaten by a magpie. However, had she eaten Hopper as I had originally planned for this story, this would have been her mugshot as she was finally brought down on racketeering and tax evasion.
After escaping from the web, Hopper went back to Anarcha’s web with a couple of Nicrophorus beetles to retrieve the body of Viridiana G. Mantis and give it a decent burial. Anarcha’s body was still there, but Viridiana’s was gone. Hopper decided that the magpie must have eaten her, too, but everybody knows that magpies only eat living bugs….
Thank you to everyone who sent pictures!
Moved InsectPOD to a new server last week due to some performance problems; new server much worse. Apologies. Will fix. Stay tuned.
AJ said,
November 4, 2008 @ 12:00 pm
Thanks for putting so much work into Hopper’s story. It was great fun!
Bryndis said,
November 4, 2008 @ 7:15 pm
This was a great story to read. I got the first chapter bookmarked for when I would want to read a detective story involving bugs again. Of course, bugs of the insect kind, not electronic one.
One thing that is making me slightly nervous is the lack of links to next chapters, begins at the first part of The Angry Arachnid. Would make searching for the remaining chapters in the future a bit difficult.
Just to let you know, but it is still a great story.