My Secret Horror

[dotinthesky]

Alien abduction is real and is happening right now all over our planet. I know this because I've been abducted many times.

The last abduction happened during a visit from my high school friend Susannah. We were hanging out in my apartment when a flash of light hit us. As in other times, the clock seemed to stop and leave everyone in suspension (there were other friends with us who simply froze on the spot). As an abductee, I was kept awake even though I could barely move. I saw Susannah changed into the white gown they prefer us to wear before entering their craft; she stared at me in horror as she was lifted into the sky.

There's a gap in my memory until the point Susannah and I managed to escape the space craft. We pushed through one of its tiny windows and realized the craft was atop a New York building. We jumped onto the building's roof and made our way as fast as possible to its back alley. When we looked up, we could feel the presence of the space craft atop the building, even though it was invisible to human eyes.

The next sequence of events is known to many as the mysterious attack on New York that the U.S. government refuses to explain. Susannah and I witnessed it all. We were running away as fast as possible from the space craft when, from the sky, three giant helicopters broke through the clouds. The largest one, as mighty as if it carried a leader, landed on a medium-sized building. From its inside burst out a muscular, gigantic man, who proceeded to demolish a sky scrapper in construction with his bare fists. He took the workers in the building as if they were dolls and threw them to the ground.

The other two helicopters carried thin, floating figures that pursued Susannah and I. One of them, with black robes and an old face, caught up with me and circled my throat with his cold hands. As he strangled me, I grabbed his throat and squeezed as hard as I could. I held my breath and played a survival contest with him. As our breaths disappeared, he shape-shifted into a dog.

"You can let him go now, dear," said one of the other floating shape-shifters to my attacker.

Comments

[kixie.livejournal.com]

Someone totally Photoshopped his face (http://www.photoshoppix.com/modules/coppermine/albums/userpics/10009/weeklyworldnews___.jpg). ;)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I love the Weekly World News! It's the best publication for getting short story ideas. ;-)

[kixie.livejournal.com]

I wonder what the 'journalists' are like. They must be the strangest people.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

They are all part-time comedians, I'm sure.

It's always great to pay attention to the news agent's face when you buy a copy.

[kixie.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I get some very odd looks when I buy the National Enquirer, it's brilliant. Every so often Aleks will run spectacularly late for dinner so I'll buy a bunch of trashy mags (I read them so quickly, I can probably go through about four in half an hour) and get the most derisive looks from the newsagent, it's brilliant! I just turn my nose up and assume a haughtier-than-thou expression as I walk out carrying my Weekly World News, National Enquirer, US and UK editions and Heat magazine.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Those are great publications to read on the plane. I went on a school excursion to Italy in 98, with profs and fellow students who would usually turn their noses up to that kind of reading, but it turned out to be exactly the kind of reading material that everyone wanted in the plane trip. We even did the crosswords together. I still remember how most of the covers were about Farah Fawcett's latest disastrous plastic surgery.

[naturalbornkaos.livejournal.com]

You should both read "The Midnight Examiner" by William Kotzwinkle.