Subkingdom Terracarnivora: Science Fiction

"Kingdom terraphilia, subkingdom terracarnivora," she murmured into the small recorder she held as she watched the mouse struggle to escape the grasping vines of the new plant, if plant it could be called. Since the meteor shower ten years ago, biologists had been inundated with work. She had been only an assistant research librarian at that time, her biology degree moldering away in a shut desk drawer. There were not that many jobs that a degree in biology from a small midwestern college of no particular repute could provide. She'd finally given up and gone into library science, where she found a certain joy in categorizing the books by code. It was like biology, a little, in the categorization, which was the part that she had always enjoyed the most. She'd written her thesis on the categorization on new species, and the ways in which it could shape the resultant study and science. She'd had to base most of her paper off of the initial categorization done in the nineteenth century.

Inspiration: "subkingdom"
Story Potential: Medium-high.
Notes: This could be one of the three prongs of a novel. Here's a bit of the characterization and setting, but it doesn't have strong plot impetus. I do like it, though--probably because I have a fondness for triffid-like stories.