The 2013 Invasion of The Lice

The invasion of lice during back-to-school season. Have you prepared your house for battle? (Satire)

Andrea Duran
5 min readAug 17, 2021
Photo Credit: Krzysztof Niewolny at Unsplash.com

Before I get into the great battle of 2013, let me burn the first and most common misconception. Lice only like clean hair. From what we’ve seen they also prefer hair that is longer, allowing girls to fall prey far more often.

Schools are Disney World to the local, ruthless louse. All that thick, natural, wonderful hair atop dozens of girls in an overcrowded classroom makes for a magnificent breeding ground for them.

When Target has their back-to-school sale, they might as well promote a section full of lice-killing medication to go with all of those fashionable backpacks and glittering notebooks and colorful gel pens.

Unfortunately, schools have stopped sending children home, lice or not, leading to constant infestations. They no longer look for patient zero, as they once had. And, after my experience, I believe the schools are in cahoots with the lice. The two have teamed up together to create a superpower, a one-government nation where the teachers can take control of us at a young and innocent age while the lice weaken us by stealing our blood. Together they make us docile and weak. Together they can turn us into pod people. It’s the only thing…

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Andrea Duran

Writer | Self-Development | Mental Health | Addiction | Fiction | B.A. Eng/Pysch | Addiction Counselor | Certified Hot Mess | https://linktr.ee/dreabookjunkie