The Brainwave of Horror Ch. 1: A Trilogy of Tales of Terror to Titillate and Traumatize
A man watches his wife and daughter turned into whores; a woman watches her control crumble as those around her turn into ... things; a young man watches his mother survive in a world where sex is not reviled; better watch YOURSELF on ... Halloween.
See No Evil: Contains sexually explicit and politically incorrect material. If you shouldn't be reading this, or if it might offend you, simply stop now.
Legalese: All actors and actresses are over the age of consent. Proof of age is on file. Any similarity of any character, event or place to any actual person, event or place, is purely coincidental. This is all fantasy, and the actors are all professionals -- do not try any of this at home.
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Author's Rambling:
For the author, the third tale was the most fun (it probably shows), although the first had some bright moments. The second tale is for whomever it's about power as much as it's about sex.
Live well!
Prolog
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A pumpkin walks into a bar.
It's Halloween night, and he left his broomstick and its team of bats in a parking space outside.
He orders a bloody mary and has a few peanuts while the crowd at the bar stares. A couple teens in the corner snicker and slip outside.
The pumpkin throws the drink back, then walks outside again, only to find his broomstick and bats missing. Frowning, he marches back into the bar.
Throwing open the door, he growls. The ceiling of the bar bursts into flame, then rips open and a huge baleful red eye with a slitted pupil leers in from above.
"Now that I have your attention," the pumpkin declares, "I will make an announcement. My name is Jack O'Lantern, and this is Halloween night, and someone just stole my broomstick and bats. This pisses me off. Who stole them?"
Silence and wide eyes are all the patrons produce.
Jack glares at the people, studying them. "I'm going to tell three stories," he says finally, "and when I'm done, if my broom and bats are not back right where I left them, well then, I'm going to do what I did 500 years ago when the last group of people took my broom and bats. And EVEN *I* don't want to do what I did 500 years ago."
Dead silence.
"Bartender," he snaps his fingers, "get me another bloody mary. And it's on the house."
The bartender quickly complies -- that eye in the ceiling is pretty scary.
The pumpkin throws back his drink, then speaks. "As I said, my name is Jack. And on Halloween night, I travel the world, creating stories of horror out of the dull tripe that is people's lives. I have done this since the first Halloweens thousands of years ago, so I have many tales to tell.
The first one goes like this ....
Getting the Shock of my Wife (mc?, inc, slut wife)
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Discourse: Does the world exist? It seems to because it's there again every morning when we wake up, just like we left it the night before. We process the data that we're given. But what if ... the world went weird one day, one very unusual ... Halloween?
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(Thursday night)
How did I get into this?
It was just supposed to be a friendly little game of poker. The same game me and my buddies play every Thursday night.
It was never supposed to be the exposure of previously hidden, shameful sides of my wife, of my family, of me.
The game was held at Stan's place this week. Just like it was five weeks ago.
This time Stan had a cousin that wanted to sit in and play too. Dexter Teufel. Ugly bastard: pot belly, greasy mustache, smug cackle when he laughed, pock-marked skin like some of the Halloween decorations Stan had put around the place for the holiday.
"Let's bump the stakes up a little," Dexter had said an hour into the game.
"Okay," Wally, Rudy and I agreed. Stan just nodded his head.
I had a straight that round!
But Dexter beat it.
The next round I had three of a kind! But Dexter beat it.
I had a full house, queens over nines, but Dexter beat it.
His luck was devilish.
I couldn't believe it when the last was drawn out of my wallet and I realized I was $500 in the hole.
But I had another full house, jacks over tens. I looked at Dexter. He COULDN'T have a higher hand than this. Not again. Nobody has luck like that.
Nobody.
I bet my car title against the $3000 he had won from us.
I ... lost.
"Hey, Richard," Wally said after about thirty seconds of silence, "you okay?"
"Ungh?" I blinked.
"You still with us, buddy?"
"I-- I-- I need my car back."
"Gonna have to put up or shut up," Dexter said, making a show of counting his money.
"But I need-- "
"Whatcha got left to put up for a chance to win it back?" Dexter said, not looking away from his counting.
"Don't do it, man," Wally said. "His luck just isn't right. Cut your losses."
"My house ...." Had I just said that?
"Mmm ... you're on. Stan, deal."
"Don't do it," Wally said again.
I picked up my hand, discarded two, couldn't believe the results: a freakin' straight flush, king high. I was going to win!
Thank God! I needed to get my car back. Or my beautiful, sweet wife Julia would think that I had turned into a horrible loser with a gambling problem. Actually, it seemed I HAD turned into such a loser, but that was irrelevant. I didn't want her to think that.
There were only three hands out of all possible combinations that could beat this. There was simply no way that--
"Hey, Richard," Wally said after a minute of dead silence, "you okay, man?"
"Ungh?" I couldn't believe that Dexter had just laid down a royal flush.
"Man, just breathe," Wally said, "You're not looking so good."
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Destitute.
Basically, I had just lost everything that my wife and I had built up during our marriage together.
"Dexter ... I, uh ...."
He was lighting a cigar. "Call me 'sir', Ridkins."
"Excuse me?"
"Call me 'sir'. Or 'Mister Teufel'. But mostly 'sir'."
"Yes, uhm ... sir. There has to be something that we can ...."
"No," he puffed on the stogie, "I don't think there is."
"But ... please ...." He was just looking at me smugly. "... sir."
"Ridkins, Ridkins, how pathetic."
"Well ... you now have almost everything that my wife and I own, and I need to work out some deal. Maybe that makes my life pathetic, but-- "
"No, no, I mean your grovelling. Your grovelling is pathetic. All grovelling should be done from a kneeling position." He looked at me a few moments. "Well?"
Feeling gutted but not having much choice, I sank to my knees. I like to think of that as courageous, as having the guts to swallow my pride and do what I needed to do to get Julia and me out of this mess.
He flicked his hand at me. "You are granted permission to snivel and plead."
"Uhm, sir ... Mr Teufel ... what can I do to ...."
"To renege on your wager? Why, nothing, Ridkins."