Most people know that after a black widow mates, the female will eat her mate. For the mate, it is a sad and totally unappetizing end to the relationship. For the female black widow, lets call her Nettie, it is her method of continuing the species and ultimately releasing a bunch of future psychopaths into the wild.

What if Nettie were human, and attempted to kill her mate, but the mate escaped? The rest of Nettie's life would be spent in an attempt to bring the escaped husband back to nature's justice. Let's call the poor sucker that got away, Willie. (Do you know a Nettie and a Willie?)

What will follow over the next several days is the story of Nettie and Willie. Nettie's attempt to cut off Willie's fly supply. The poison fly incident. The thing with the crow, who did in the end decide it was safer not to eat poor Willie.

All while this is going on, the kids, the cute little black widow spiders are learning about how their dad did not obey the rules, how he refused to follow the path Nettie had laid down for him. Their little minds are poisoned against Willie and they will have nothing to do with him.

Even so, Nettie gets more and more bitter. She snaps at everyone around her. She bites all she can. Her wrath and the destruction are in constrast with her expensive and opulent silk web. Future installments will discuss how Nettie meets her untimely demise.