​According to the letter-sized sheet of paper taped to the wall of the seaside provisions market, “Justin” was a lost pet.

​Justin, the poster claimed, would answer by name and be attracted to ham and cheese sandwiches, but only those that weren’t slathered in mayo, owing to his vegetarianism.

​He’d been missing since May.

​I’m sure it was just a cheeky coincidence.

​What I was looking at in the super-detailed photograph that took up half the page’s real estate appeared to be that of an ordinary Musca domestica Linnaeus, though he was magnified about 300 times.

​That’s “housefly” in English.

​No relation to Ephemera vulgata … the “mayfly,” which, as a cousin to the dragonfly, should have stuck around through........

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