Greetings, Silent Observers and Cockroach Believers,

It's with a mixture of excitement and curiosity that I introduce "Rudy the Roach." In the bustling heart of an apartment complex, we find our unlikeliest narrator—Rudy, a cockroach with a peculiar penchant for eavesdropping and an insatiable curiosity about the human condition.

Here, within the confined walls of urban life, Rudy uncovers the laughter and laments, the conflicts and camaraderie, and the secrets and stories of the building's residents. His tales are not woven from grandiose adventures but are the intricate, hidden dramas that unfold in the everyday — a testament to the notion that every life has its own epic narrative, if only we look closely enough.

With "Rudy the Roach," I invite you to peer through the cracks, to listen along with Rudy to the tales and sighs that fill the corners of ordinary lives. This collection of interconnected stories is a celebration of the mundane made magnificent, a narrative patchwork that pieces together the beautiful complexity of existence seen through a pair of two large compound eyes and heard through a pair of antennae.

Join Rudy in his journey through the walls, and prepare to be enthralled by the tales that scuttle across the thresholds of the unknowingly observed.

Until my next story scurries along,
Samuel DenHartog