The Life of Miss Nyte
Copyright© 2026 by Mixx Nyte
Chapter 1
Mind you, I will be posting ‘in the raw’ as in this is literally how I actually talk, not much editing.
Where to start? Isn’t that the question, I suppose anywhere is as good a place as wherever. I’ll shoot with this then, my oldest passion and fascination (since childhood) has been observing insects. Notably, I really like beetles, I’d love to have a pet goliath beetle, though my favorite is the cottonwood borer beetle. It’s not remarkable as far as beetles go, but when I was younger, at this time in life I was in Oklahoma, we had two massive cottonwood trees in our backyard, one was infested with the beetles, and I enjoyed capturing them, and observing their behaviour in a jar of sorts. It scared my mom, seeing this pint-sized little girl hunting these inch to inch and a half beetles with frightening mandibles. She told me to use my dad’s pliers, I of course complied like a good girl.
I also enjoy grasshoppers and locusts, and dragonflies (though you’ll be hard pressed to find a female of my generation that doesn’t like dragonflies. I don’t know why). Oh, I have a scar on my palm still from when a locust bit me, I was like ... five years old when that happened, so, thirty years. Oldest scare I know of apart from my navel. So when I was younger I was certain I would be an entomologist (imagine, if you will, hearing a kindergartner pronouncing that word correctly. Yeah, I’m that nerd.) I guess I had a desire to ‘do it right’ so to speak from a young age (thanks mom and dad!) I’m still that way to a point I am working hard to learn all things Japanese because I want to visit, and be a proper ambassador of sorts so as not to dishonor my native USA. I don’t wanna be ‘that’ asshat.
That moves me on to my disdain for society as a whole, please do not misconstrue this as I will try to convey my actual view points; I despise society as a whole. I find that the herd mentality of human beings en masse to be absolutely insufferable. They follow the sway and whim of the loudest, most obnoxious in the group, this person tends to be the most moronic, oft spouting foolish nonsense, look at the political atmosphere, look at any large group of highschoolers, it’s almost indistinguishable to me. Now, you get an individual alone, they are usually pretty decent. I can tolerate, even enjoy, an individual alone. What I really enjoy is when they get animated in their conversation.
When you get someone one a track of something they are truly passionate about it’s incredible! The life in their eyes, the spirit they are expressing, the energy they are exhibiting, is almost intoxicating. Even if I otherwise don’t like the topic, or know nothing about the context, I LOVE listening to someone talking about that which makes their heart sing. Give me the company of one stranger than a mass of people who love me (which I doubt would ever happen) any day. I like to listen, you can learn so much about anything when you shut your mouth and really listen.
I don’t mean like ‘Yeah I hear you.” I mean “Can you please clarify what you meant when you said...” ACTIVE listening my dears. Clarify by asking questions, but only if you’re willing to accept a different view point. On that note, also keep in mind, there are so many people who are trying to force others to think the way they do, instead of celebrating individuality they want everyone to conform to their ideals. I will not shove anything down someone else’s throat unless I have two things: First CONSENT, second A REQUEST FOR IT.