Krrrik

People don’t understand the difficulty being a beacon to the monster world.

I don’t quite know how it happened, but ever since I was a wee welp, the creatures from the other side have been obsessed with capturing me and putting me inside of small crates and little brass cages.

It really isn’t my fault.

I never made fun of them when I’d see them running through the yard, or stealing eggs from the neighbors. But that really is the problem; I see things that others do not.

Or maybe should not.

My punishment is monster abduction. Maybe you’ve got the same problem, I don’t know.

When I tell people about it, they just shake their heads and then rapidly change the subject to talk about their new station wagon.

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It happens mostly at night. (The Abductions.) I hear the chugga-chugga of their steam driven motorcars, the beastial laughter, and finally the claws at my door. Sometimes they’re rough. Sometimes it hurts.

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How they get here from Monstru, I’ll never know. Hell, I don’t even know how I get back, though I’m sure that it has to do with the big rift in the middle of their land. All I know is that I get hit in the head while I’m attempting to escape and I awaken… lately in the desert.

I’m starting to be surprised that I ever make it back at all.


Discussion (4) ¬

  1. Marrock

    HA, I called that move with the pegleg!

    As for your monster issues, try wearing -only- a florescent pink bowtie to bed, turns out the two things most honest monsters absolutely can’t abide are the color pink and bowties, if you combine the two you have a virtually unbeatable weapon.

    And, if it fails to work and you wake up in the desert again… at least you’ll be ready for Burning Man.

    • Daniel

      HA, I called that move with the pegleg!

      Marrock, you totally called it! But I didn’t want to spoil it for you, though.

      I’ll give your bowtie thing a try… but it won’t go over my mustache!
      :)

      • Marrock

        Then you get a a clip-on and clip it -to- the ‘stache, problem solved. ;)

  2. smilinphoenix

    I am repelled completely by bow ties.
    (Does it spin, light up, squirt water?)
    That explains a whole lot.

    If someone is wearing a bow tie in the mailing facility, I start to bark uncontrollably and have to leave the building.