Gilliam Wilbert read the news article with something akin to shocked disbelief. "Cockroach Extinct: household vermin bites the dust. Blattella germanica, the last remaining extant species of cockroach, has finally gone the way of the rat..." Gilliam dug out the pile of old Schmidt boxes his grandfather, long dead, had made as part of a collection for the now defunct local museum. Gilliam had smuggled them into his cramped studio apartment one evening when the surveillance cameras had gone on the blink. Every species of cockroach: it had been the old man's speciality — more than that, the love of his life.
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