horrors2

brylcreem.The_Creatu.tex

  1\chapauth{brylcreem}
  2\chapter{The Creature / Dying}
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  5\section*{The creature. From the sewers.}
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  7This wasn't going to happen. Again. Gene Beaver pulled off his light
  8suede jacket and sighed. Then he sighed again. He had started as a
  9trainee sewer inspector three months ago and immediately heard the
 10rumors. Rumors of a creature in the sewers.
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 12Three years ago he had been happy. With a kid and another on the
 13way. Wife at home, making dinner. The whole nine yards. Then he came to
 14town. The kid. The prodigy they called him. Gene hated him. Hated him
 15enough to kill him? Perhaps. Or perhaps not. Either way, Gene hated him.
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 17Two and half months later, his wife left him. With the kid. The kid from
 18out of town. Gene hated him, but he couldn't do anything about it.
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 20It was Christmas, but Gene didn't feel jolly. Didn't feel jolly at
 21all. His wife was gone with the kids, and the kid and Gene was
 22alone. Alone at Christmas. The worst time of year to be alone. It was
 23sad. Suddenly, Gene sobbed.
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 25No, this isn't right! He thought. Gene decided to change his life, to
 26make it better. A new life, in a new town.
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 28Three years later, here he was. In the sewer, with a creature that
 29didn't show up.
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 31Suddenly, Gene heard a sound. A sound from behind! Suddenly he turned
 32and came face to face with it! The creature! The rumors were real! The
 33creature was real!
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 35Gene died quickly. In the sewers.
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 37200 miles away, Louise shuddered in her sleep. The man next to her woke
 38and looked at her. And smiled!
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 40\section*{Dying. Of arsenik!}
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 44``Mommy? Where's Daddy?'' The questions kept
 45penetrating Louise's skull like a rusty icepick that had been
 46left outside too long. Long enough to develop rust. Cancer for
 47metal, Louise's father had always said in his father-voice. Now he
 48was dead. Like Gene.
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 52``Daddy isn't here, sweetheart! We live with Tolkien now, remember?''
 53Louise had left Gene for Tolkien three years ago. It had been the
 54best years of her life. Until now. The kids made it that way. The
 55kids with their kid questions and their kid faces. Why were they
 56like that? They were kids, that's why.
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 60Louise turned around. Suddenly! The kid winced. Louise slapped it
 61with her hand. Blood poured out of the mark left by her wedding
 62ring. Tolkien had bought it. On a Sunday.
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 66They had visited Tolkien's parents. They lived in a small farmhouse
 67just off Route 66 in the desert. Miles to the neares neighbor. They
 68had horses, and Louise loved to ride them. Tolkien's parents were
 69rich. But it didn't show in the way they dressed. Tolkien's dad
 70wore shirts and blue jeans. Tolkien's mom wore shirts and blue
 71jeans. Tolkien had picked up the habit. He wore shirts and blue
 72jeans too. Soon, Louise were wearing shirts and blue jeans.
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 76It was Sunday. Louise and Tolkien rode to town on a mighty steed.
 77They stopped at a jewellery store. Tolkien and Louise went inside
 78the jewellery store. Inside, the owner of the jewellery store
 79looked them up and down. She was the owner of the jewellery store,
 80and she didn't like poor people in her jewellery store, of which
 81she was the owner.
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 85``Get out of my jewellery store!'' She said. ``We don't like poor
 86people in this jewellery store! I own this jewellery store!'' The
 87owner said.
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 91``I have money!'' Tolkien said. He showed his money.
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 95``Oh.'' The owner of the jewellery store said. ``Oh. Please shop. This
 96is my jewellery store''.
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100``Thank you.'' Tolkien said. ``I will'' he said.
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104Tolkien picked out a ring. He gave the money to the owner of the
105jewellery store.
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109``Keep the change'' Tolkien said to the owner of the jewellery
110store.
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114``Thank you very much'' the owner of the jewellery store said. Now
115she could retire and buy a boat. Tolkien had been the 10.000th
116customer and she had enough money to buy a boat and retire. So she
117did, the next day.
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121In the meantime, Louise was happy with Tolkien. Tolkien wore shirts
122and blue jeans. Louise wore shirts and blue jeans. The kids wore
123pajamas. This was why Louise hated them.
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127She had been giving them arsenik for dinner every night. Her high
128school biology teacher had taught her to make it in exchange for
129sex. Louise had been 14 years old and she loved it. So did the
130teacher. Louise told everything to the principal and he was fired.
131Then he commited suicide. Louise didn't care.
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135Louise gave arsenik to her children. But what she didn't know, was
136that the kids vomited from it. They vomited into the air ducts of
137the house. And there the dust became infested with arsenik. Then
138Louise and Tolkien breathed it and then they died.
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142The End. 
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147\illustration{brylcreem}{Arsenic}{art/brylcreem-arsenic.png}