Monster: A Short Story
It came on translucent, parched, low riding legs. It crawled thirty feet below half of the population., a vigorous destroyer, flashing its delicate watchmaker's claws away its oily reptilian organic structure. Each claw was a nail , a thousand tiny nails all together , above thick ropes of muscle, sheathed over thick oily skin like the flesh of a ferocious warrior. Each tentacle was a string of spaghetti, smush, and mesh. And from the great breathing cage in the chest there was a tiny head that popped out, a head that would examine you and look deep into your soul, while the snake neck coiled. And the arm itself, a ton of sculptured stone, stayed low to the surface easily below the population. Its mouth gaped, exposing a row of squid like tentacles popped out. His eyes seemed to be inexistent, tiny stones,
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empty of all expression . It closed its mouth in attacking form. It ran, it hustled away and its tiny arms ran crushing all organisms, its taloned feet clawing damp earth, leaving prints six inches deep wherever it flooded its weight.
The Tyrant reptile raised itself. Its soft fur shined like the sun against a mirror. The sun, glimmered with sparkles, and ever so flashing. In the fur tiny insects wriggled, so that the entire body seemed to twitch and retaliate , even while the monster itself did not move. It exhaled. The smell of moist, sweaty clothes ran threw the forest. The Monster, at the first motion, leaped ahead hollering tribal mumbles that no one could comprehend. It covered one hundred yards in six seconds. The rifles jerked up and blazed fire. A hurricane from the monster's mouth got all things trapped in slime and bits of dead animals it had once ate. The Monster roared. tentacles shined with the light of day. The rifles cracked again, then there was a loud squeak by the monster. The monster let its tail fly like a bird and it went up and down and lashed sideways. Trees exploded in clouds of leaf and branch. The Monster twitched its jeweler's claws up to fondle at the men, to smash them in half, to crush them like scissors on paper, to cram them into his gigantic mouth and destroy them. Its boulderstone eyes below the men. They saw themselves
mirrored.
empty of all expression . It closed its mouth in attacking form. It ran, it hustled away and its tiny arms ran crushing all organisms, its taloned feet clawing damp earth, leaving prints six inches deep wherever it flooded its weight.
The Tyrant reptile raised itself. Its soft fur shined like the sun against a mirror. The sun, glimmered with sparkles, and ever so flashing. In the fur tiny insects wriggled, so that the entire body seemed to twitch and retaliate , even while the monster itself did not move. It exhaled. The smell of moist, sweaty clothes ran threw the forest. The Monster, at the first motion, leaped ahead hollering tribal mumbles that no one could comprehend. It covered one hundred yards in six seconds. The rifles jerked up and blazed fire. A hurricane from the monster's mouth got all things trapped in slime and bits of dead animals it had once ate. The Monster roared. tentacles shined with the light of day. The rifles cracked again, then there was a loud squeak by the monster. The monster let its tail fly like a bird and it went up and down and lashed sideways. Trees exploded in clouds of leaf and branch. The Monster twitched its jeweler's claws up to fondle at the men, to smash them in half, to crush them like scissors on paper, to cram them into his gigantic mouth and destroy them. Its boulderstone eyes below the men. They saw themselves
mirrored.