Originally Posted by: earthman buckCool stuff, Jolly. I have one question: what do you mean by "both were unwanted?" Are you referring to both Thomas and his mother, or the worms and his mother? Or is it something to do with the process of decomposition that I'm missing completely?
By the way, the whole bit about his dead mother suckling the worms is friggin' creepy. Very very nice use of words.
It's referring to the decomposition.
The worms actually aren't suckling there, it's the children in a brief memory-flash. I'll change the wording there so it's not so confusing; re-reading it I can very easily see how you got that idea.