The Day of the Triffids

Mono Monday: Day of the Triffids


"People were surprised, and a little disgusted, to learn that the species was carnivorous, and that the flies and other insects caught in the cups were actually digested by the sticky substance there. We in temperate zones were not ignorant of insectivorous plants, but we were unaccustomed to finding them outside special hothouses, and apt to consider them as in some way slightly indecent, or at least improper. But actually alarming was the discovery that the whorl topping a triffid's stem could lash out as a slender stinging weapon ten feet long, capable of discharging enough poison to kill a man if it struck squarely on his unprotected skin."


John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids.



Thanks to Dollykgray for running the month of sci-fi Mono Mondays, which have been immense fun.