The Brainwave of Horror Ch. 2: 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!
Intrusion of the People Snatchers (mc, ff, extraterrestrial worms)
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Discourse: You stagger uphill shouldering a heavy pack. If a fellow traveler lifts that pack off your shoulders, is he taking your pack, or giving you relief from your burden? The taking or the giving -- this has always been the quandary of mankind. When evicted from Eden, was paradise taken from us, or free will given to us? Perhaps the answer can only be found ... on Halloween.
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They're coming.
The Taggert girl and I are huddled in the dark under one of the tables in Conway's chemistry lab, but that won't help for long. They're surrounding us, searching for us.
And soon ... they'll find us.
And then ....
I'll kill myself before I give into them. They're THINGS! Things in human costume. And I ... will not become one of them. Even if I have to ... even if ....
I squeeze my hand around the knitting needle I hold to reassure myself. I took it from Cecilia's desk just after they turned her, and it is my way out of this if needed. I won't let them turn me, not into a THING. I'll place the needle between my third and fourth ribs and drive it into my chest if I have to.
But then ... what of my family? My husband? My eight-year-old son and six-year-old daughter? Will the children be safe? Or will these things take over them, no matter how young? Or will the children be penned up like cattle until puberty and taken then?
Ohgod, help us please ....
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(One day earlier)
"I think that we can reach her if we keep trying," Angela Garretson said in her soft melodious voice. "I was talking with her the other day and she seemed to really open up."
"You're just wasting your time," I sighed. "The girl will never amount to anything. Except trouble."
Angela frowned. She and I had butted heads on this topic before. "You can't just wash your hands of the ones you don't like, Deborah."
"And YOU shouldn't waste your time on the bad kids -- it just reinforces their bad behavior. And it makes it hard for the rest of us that have to put up with them in our classrooms."
"One, she's not a bad kid. She's just different from you, and that doesn't make her bad. And two, she's trying to find herself. That's what teenagers DO. It's what they're SUPPOSED to do."
"She turned 18 at the end of January," I sighed. "If she doesn't like being coddled here, she can go try her hand in the real world. Wind up selling her body on the street corner."
Angela tightened her mouth and looked off to the side.
I pushed it: Angela needed to be yanked back into line. "And people like you make it harder for people like us to do our jobs. If it were up to me, the Taggert girl would tow the line, or she would be out of here the next day. And she would know this, and she would make her choice. But then people like you come along and make things muddy. After listening to you, she thinks she might be able to be bad and get away with it, might even be rewarded for it. You make things hard for the girl. Now instead of being able to make a clean break and go on with her life of prostitution and drugs, she wonders if she might have a place-- "
"Deborah," Angela snapped back, "YOU are NOT the final arbiter of who gets to stay in school and who gets relegated to a lifetime of prostitution. Fawn is a smart girl -- she got 1300 on her SATs."
"She has both nipples pierced and comes to school braless! She looks like she's had each boob stapled! I don't want the slut in my classroom."
"Maybe she doesn't want you there, either."
"Well," I smiled, "she doesn't have any choice now, does she?"
"Deborah, you changed classes with Osborn at the beginning of the semester just so that you could get her in your history class."
"Maybe I like to take on the problem children."
"She's NOT a problem child! If you just get off her back!"
"I agree with Deborah," Cecilia piped up.
I looked at Angela and nodded. So there.
Angela leaned back in her chair and looked away. "Sorry, I'm not giving up on her." She kicked her foot a couple times, then looked back at me. "She's NOT even a bad girl! She's just DIFFERENT from you!"
"I have to disagree with you on that," I said coldly. "She's a bad seed. Has been from the day she was born. And you need to cut the bad seeds loose so you can help the good ones like Dana."
Angela rolled her eyes. "Dana Levee is just a little suck-up that thinks that she can keep her GPA by telling you what you want to hear. And in YOUR case, that DOES work."
That was enough. I stood, turned my back on the woman and walked out. Cecilia was right behind me.
"What are you going to do?" Cecilia asked as we walked up the hall.
"Angela Garretson is trouble," I declared with pursed lips. "Same as that Taggert kid. We'd all be better off if both of them left."
I walked up to the front office, Cecilia in tow. "Stay," I told her just outside the door and stepped in alone.
Diane and Louise saw me and whispered together a second. Then Louise stepped up to the counter. "May I help you, Mrs Brady?"
"I wish to make an appointment to speak to Principal Edwards."
The woman fidgeted a second. "Are you sure it's nothing I could help you with?"
I just stared at her.
"Okay," she sighed and pulled out an appointment book. "Do you have a 11:00?"
"No, I'm free that period. I'll see him at 11:00." I spun around and walked out.
To allow Angela Garretson to continue like she was would be to just make things muddy for her. She simply was never meant to be a teacher. And we just needed to lay things out clearly for her so that she could make a clean break from teaching and get on with HER life of prostitution and drugs.
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Dana Levee was walking a little funny. Her sister had come home from college last night and ... well ... after the things they did, Dana's body felt a little different.
Actually, a lot different.
She looked at the floor behind her to make sure she wasn't leaving a trail of juices.
She knocked on the nurse's office. There had been just way too many people in math class for her to do the things she wanted to do. The nurse's office would be quieter.
Nurse Simpson opened the door. "Yes, Dana? Are you not feeling well?"