by jensouthern | Oct 31, 2018 | Blog
For single-celled creatures to traverse the world at first seemed impossible. Having no legs, locomotion on more than a microscopic scale presented unimaginable obstacles. However, with the assistance of two faithful servants, humans and sand flies, we have been able...
by jensouthern | Nov 1, 2018 | Blog
We began our travels under our own steam. Nimbly transforming to move between the warm blood stream of mammals and the cold bodies of sand flies. It has required some ingenuity on our part, but we found that the mammalian white blood cell made a fine and cosy carriage...
by jensouthern | Nov 2, 2018 | Blog
To travel by sand fly is to travel by a somewhat unreliable method. Following the example of the local inhabitants we merely wait for one to turn up in our vicinity. Thankfully, this occurs with a high frequency, but one never knows quite when to expect them, and so...
by jensouthern | Nov 3, 2018 | Blog
We have become quite nicely accustomed to our new environment. We hope it is not too indelicate to mention that we have spent our time here reproducing! Not in a conventional way but through a process of dividing, so that one of us becomes two, two become four, and so...
by jensouthern | Nov 4, 2018 | Blog
According to a rumour we heard, our cousins who prefer reptilian hosts are responsible for changing the course of history by slaying dinosaurs. I have it from a reliable source that our genetic history does indeed date back that far, but there’s no way of knowing if...
by jensouthern | Nov 5, 2018 | Blog
For millions of years we enjoyed traveling incognito, known only through evidence made apparent in our hosts. We are somewhat at their mercy, and time and again we are left stranded by their incompetence. Imagine how we felt as the sand fly that was transporting us...
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