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Disease (fortnightly writing competition entry)

My eyes have things they should’ve never seen. In fact, I’d rather have them plucked out of my eyesockets with rusty icepicks. 

For example, do you know that the alien invasion, the one sci-fi movies such as “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” warn you about, that kind of an alien invasion - do you know it’s already over? It is, and we, humans, are the losers.

We simply call it the Disease. THE disease. You catch it, you end up in one of our Bunkers, with other unlucky fellows. Oh, and did I mention that if you do catch it, chances are you’re a little girl. Because thing is, they’re the most susceptible. The most endangered. 

Yeah, well, and what about myself? I’m just a janitor. I work in one of these bunkers, filled with little sick girls, each and every one of them about to turn into a horrible outworldly monstrosity with thirst… For human blood, you may say? No, this ain’t some kiddie vampire tale. They want your GUTS. Once their metamorphosis is over, that is. They’ll want to lay their EGGS inside you. 

There are a lot of teddy bears and ponies and such in our bunker. Because however sick they are, they’re still human beings. Probably. We often talk to them. Here’s Laura. She’s six. She’s a cute little girl. We don’t kill them while they’re humans, you know. Imagine the public outrages had we do kill them on sight!

Laura’s parents are on the other side of this bulletproof glass here. We don’t want them to catch the Disease as well. Laura laughs and says that everything’s fine. She puts on her little hat and runs away to play with her friends.

And here’s the vats. It’s filled with some chemistry, I don’t know the specifics. But when the girls turn into monsters, we kill them and we dump them in the vats. And this purple liquid dissolves them pretty neat. They scream and bubble, and wriggle, and turn into more purple liquid. Which we pour into barrels and sell.

Because it’s highly delicious.

— written from my iHaventSleptForAWhile

(Source: bigbluecup.com)