SKNIPES stands for ΣΚΝΙΠΕΣ

I hate σκνίπες (sknipes).

Wikipedia says their english name is 'gnats'. But gnats don't seem to suck human blood. Whatever.

Sknipes give me larger bite marks than mosquitoes, yet are much smaller. Hard to see and kill, practically invisible without my glasses.

They are silent until they come close to the ear where an extremely high-pitched noise woke me up many summer nights, as a child living in Crete.

Collecting dozens of bites of mosquitoes and sknipes has been my every-summer fate, until I left Greece at 23.

When I looked for names for my one-frame stories, I was thinking of shots, like sniper shots, something very simple but perfectly spot-on, 'snipes'.

I like 'snipes', sounds good. But snipes is that sneakers store, so, I can't.

But sknipes!

Nobody uses that word, I checked.

It's no English word, there was no sknipes.com.

Well, now it's mine.

Sknipes is close enough to 'snipes' even if the reader has no idea that sknipes themselves are a thing,

and they are good enough mascot for my extremely annoying ones

the ones you can not unsee

they bite you against your will, when you find yourself in their viccinity, and the bite mark lingers.

So, that's why Sknipes are called sknipes.

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Thank you for your attention.

Antony

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