unfed

“Her voice slips through our ribs, like a ghost, attracted by our hunger, by the space made for her in our shrunken, unfed bellies,” she writes of June.

“I would favor a license for cats, which would greatly diminish the number of unfed alley cats that must hunt for their living,” she once said.

When I met Fillinger on a Monday morning, she was jet-lagged and unfed in a plum jumpsuit and pale purple face mask, a look she described as “chic mechanic.”

Comparing densities of unfed versus fed elk - results will be published soon in an academic journal - was possible due to the mild winter of 2017-18.

This family-friendly tale was missing one crucial and far less G-rated plot element: the pure, unadulterated rage of an insect unfed.