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Old joke:
Q: What’s worse than biting into an apple and finding a worm?
A: Finding half a worm.

Not a joke at all:
Q: What’s more unsettling than opening the bedroom closet and finding a weird proto-lizard?
A: Finding half a weird proto-lizard.

I don’t know what this thing is. Do snakes have legs? I thought maybe this was a baby lizard, like the kind that have the run of the property, but the legs are way too small and the body is too narrow and this has teeth!

Then, too, there’s the question of “what bit this monster in half?”, not to mention, “and is that thing also living in my closet?”

This creature-part is very small, about 1.5'' in overall length. At first I thought it was a toy because the end that’s been chewed off looked too stringy and fibrous to be animal in origin. However, the skin is pure lizard, and the tiny hands are too small to be manmade. So I don’t know what it is. But I am shaking out my clothes before getting dressed in the morning, I assure you. I’m not sure what I fear more — finding the rear legs, or not finding the rear legs.

(It just occurred to me that fear sometimes leads to detachment. This time, it’s more a case of detachment leading to fear.)