Inktober 2026.21 - Hero

20 Lounge | INDEX | 22 Beacon Anyone who will do this for me when needed more than deserves to be called a hero! A note to non-Australian residents: the truth is we don’t see these guys as often as you think we do. All the ones that won’t kill you are completely harmless. Aussies love to tease the rest of the world about the wild, wild world of nature we live in, when the encounters are actually relatively rare. Depending on where you live. And whether you have several funnel-web colonies living in your backyard, like I do. Even so, we seldom see more than 1 or 2 a year, and I’ve only ever seen 2 in the house in the 20 years we’ve lived here. Oh dear, I’m still not doing much for tourism, am I! I’ll end with a riddle. One Aussie bloke picks up another in his ute and as his friend is getting in, says, “Hey mate, put the sunvisor down, will ya?” His mate looks at him and says, “No waaay!!” —Why? Self-imposed constraint: Use the letters of the prompt word inside a 2-inch square to…