Time-Share
short story
by Samuel Blackwell
If you are reading this, then you have found my body, I'm sorry for the mess, but I had no choice, I had to kill it and this was the only way.
For the record I am Nancy Price. You will find Janet Brown in the bathroom. I shot her, but I didn't kill her. When you do the autopsy you will find that she has been dead for days.
I want to state that this is in no way a suicide note, this is a warning.
They're coming. As crazy as it sounds they are coming.
It started with a message on my cell phone, it was Janet and she was in a panic. "Help! They're after me!" She screamed and then the phone went dead. I couldn't reach her after that; it was two agonizing days before I saw her.
Her car drove up the driveway just after midnight, she opened the car door and vomited. I put my robe on and ran out to help her; she was sick and unable to speak.
Janet looked bad, she was pale, her eyes were so blood shot that the whites had turned completely red.
Then out of nowhere this damn black cat jumped out of the car. At the time I was too concerned about Janet to even think about the cat.
After getting her showered and into bed, I realized that this cat had been following us through the house. It stayed with Janet the whole time like it was watching over her. I tried to get it off the bed but Janet
wanted the cat to stay with her.
I slept on the couch that night not wanting to disturb Janet.
I was awakened by the sensation that something was in my throat. I opened my eyes to see the black cat sitting on my chest with his mouth to mine.
My body immediately jerked up and I began to gag uncontrollably. The cat jumped off of me as I tried to breathe. I could feel something going down my throat. Quickly I ran to the kitchen for a drink of water,
tripping over the cat in the process.
I began to cough up blood and then a sharp pain shot through my whole body, it started at the base of my skull and quickly spread across my shoulders and down my spine all the way to my feet.
It was like being electrocuted. My body convulsed so severely that I lost complete control, soiling myself in the process, and then I passed out from the pain.
I awoke to the morning sun shining on my face from the window, and was startled as I opened my eyes to see the cat lying dead next to me.
Using the walls to steady myself I walked to the bathroom for a hot shower. In the shower my fingers ran across a lump at the base of my skull, I pushed on it slightly, which caused an excruciating pain to shoot
through my head.
My stomach began to feel nauseous and then the cramps started. Doubling over in pain I began vomiting.
I don't remember anything after that.
I found myself in bed next to Janet. Lying there I could hear a low humming noise, almost like a buzzing. It was coming from Janet. Putting my ear to her chest, I could not hear a heart beat only a low buzzing
sound.
I tried to get up but I was too weak and groggy.
I'm not sure how many days I lay in bed, it's all a blur.
I woke at one point to see Janet standing over me completely naked. Her skin had turned gray and her eyes had become like black orbs.
Janet was holding a large knife as she straddled me. In one quick motion she slit her wrist and put it to my mouth, as if by instinct like a new born baby I began to suckle her wrist.
It was not blood that came out of her veins. From the mirror at my bedside I could see that it was a thick goo, greenish in color as it dripped from my mouth. The taste was very bitter, but it was nourishing me. I
could feel it, my body could feel it.
I passed out, in my sleep I had the strangest dreams. I dreamed of alien landscapes nothing I had ever seen before. In one dream I was a gladiator with four arms, in hand to hand combat with some type of scaly
Cyclops. We were fighting in an arena; there were thousands of creatures watching us as I beat the Cyclops into submission.
I held the creature down like a schoolyard bully sitting on his chest with my legs straddling his arms as I repeatedly punched him in the face. Grasping his badly beaten face with one of my hands, I began to give
him an open mouth kiss.
And then I was the Cyclops staring back at the four-armed gladiator, who seemed to have lost all of his fight. I pushed his dying carcass off of me and slowly got up as the creatures in the stands cheered.
The scenery changed, I was six years old, it was the first time I ever rode a bicycle. My daddy was cheering me on, " Good girl! You re doing it!" He exclaimed as he ran beside me, making sure I wouldn't fall. The
dream was so vivid when I awoke; I thought I was still six years old for a few moments.
I was brought back to reality by the sound of Janet laughing hysterically, I looked out the window of our rural home to see her still naked running through the sprinklers in the moonlight.
I drifted back into unconsciousness, it was Christmas Eve of my eighth year, I was filled with excitement and anticipation, sitting on the floor in the living room, in front of our television set with my three year old brother Tommy. Andy Williams was singing "O Holy Night" on the TV screen, this was one of my fondest memories and it was like it was happening all over again.
Any minute dad would walk through the door with an arm full of firewood.
I was admiring the Christmas tree when I remembered that mom was in the kitchen preparing dinner. "Mom!" I shouted as I ran to the kitchen to see her. "What is it dear? " She asked. I just stood there staring back at her; she was so young, healthy, and beautiful.
I ran to her, threw my arms around her. I could feel her and smell her all over again. I looked up at her and told her how much I loved her. She gave me another squeeze and called me a knucklehead like she used
to do. I looked in her eyes they were so bright and alive not like the last time I saw when her body had been riddled with that damn cancer.
"Looky Snow!" Tommy shouted as he stood by our front window. I gasped as I look out our window to see an orbital view of the planet earth.
We were miles above earth's atmosphere. I turned to see Tommy, he had changed, his eyes were Black Orbs, like Janet's, his face began to change and distort like some strange alien creature. His mouth opened as if he were trying to scream, but for a few moments there was no sound and then a loud shrill unearthly shriek.
The surroundings had changed also, I was on some type of spacecraft, it was dark and very dank, and a strong odor of warm mildew hung in the air. I looked all around but my mother was gone.
I was drifting in and out of consciousness. I seem to remember Janet at one point standing by my bedside scooping out handfuls of peanut butter from the jar and rubbing it on her face and in her hair, and then
eating a raw onion like it was an apple.
In one of my dreams I was the black cat. I saw through its eyes as it made its way off of Janet's bed to the living room. It sat there for a few moments watching me asleep on the couch and then it carefully
climbed up and sat on my chest.
I finally awoke from these strange dreams with the realization that I had changed.
An alien parasite was taking over my body.
This parasite inside of me has some how become part of me, it knows my thoughts, and along with this I know its thoughts.
These dreams that I have been having are memories, not just mine but those of the parasite inside of me, along with all the other memories and lives that this alien monster has stolen.
You see these aliens are scouts; they have come to earth in search of vacation spots for their kind. Not the planet but us, our bodies are like some type of time-share.
They like our bodies for all of our senses. These parasites attach themselves to the base of our skull. It takes several days before the process is complete. Once it is they are in complete control of our body,
with all of our thoughts, memories, and senses.
Being that our bodies are dead, it is only a matter time before they'll need to move on.
I have discovered a way of staying in control for the time being.
I am drunk.
Completely inebriated.
It seems to incapacitate the creature inside of me.
I found Janet in the bathroom she was standing at the mirror burning her flesh with a hot curling iron. I could see and smell the burned flesh; her face and chest were completely scarred.
She hadn't noticed me standing behind her as she made her way down her body with the hot curling iron. I put the rifle to her head and pulled the trigger, her head exploded, leaving greenish gray muck all over the now cracked mirror. Her body fell to the ground.
I watched as the alien insect crawled out of her neck where her head used to be. It was covered in slime, looking very much like a mix between a Leech and a Centipede.
It made loud shriek as I stepped on it, I could feel it die as it squished between my toes.
I have written down everything I know in hopes that it will help you, as I have stated they are coming.
Please tell my dad, Tommy, and little Ruth how much I love them, and not to worry about me I'm with mom now.
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Local Lesbian Kills Partner then Takes Own Life
Nancy Price Co-Owner of N & J Antiques and her life partner Janet Brown were found dead at their rural home on Saturday, an apparent murder suicide. Authorities believe this was brought on by depression and
alcoholism. The body of Janet Brown was found in the couple's bathroom. It is speculated that Nancy had shot her and then turned the weapon on her self in the couple's bedroom. There was a suicide note but police are not releasing the note until the investigation is complete.
Strange Lights in the Sky
All over the Kansas region authorities have been alerted to strange lights shooting through the sky last night. Marcy Dodson of Wichita viewed the late night light shower from the bedroom window of her Mobil home.
"It was like nothing I'd ever seen before." Marcy reported, "It was like being in one of those science fiction movies. I still got goose bumps."
Hakeem Fataah a cab driver from nearby Kansas City stated, "The night sky was lit up like fire works."
Pedro Sanchez was driving his lunch truck on highway 44 when he spotted the strange lights. "The lights seemed to be coming from all directions, falling through the sky to the earth in a multitude of colors."
As of yet Authorities refuse to comment.
