Centipedes Part III

    By: James B. Davis

Me and Francis where walking in the forest and eating some apples looking for old computers. I thinking about what the world might have been light before The Wave invaded, some still have stories passed down for father to father or mother to mother, about how they used computers to seek out information, or drive in cars.

That thought drifted away when Francis yelled for me to came look at something. I ran to him to see a big piece of ice, stuck in a tree with a large military computer in it. “Think we can get it out?” Francis asked “Probably not without a flamer, we'll go back to the village and get one.” I said and we headed back to the village.

When we got to the village we walked into the black smith's hut, “Could we use your Flamer?” asked Francis “You got something to trade?” he asked “Um,” I said while looking in the pocket that hung from my neck, “how about this?” I said and grabbed a toothbrush out of the pocket “My god where did you find that?!” he cried “Not telling, now do you want it or not?” I said “Yes, yes of course.” I handed him the toothbrush and he gave me a flamer.

Francis and Me walked back into the woods to flame the ice. When we got there a large tiger was sleeping in front of it. We slowly walked up to and threw a spear into it's side killing it. I took the flamer, and started flaming the ice, we melted the computer out of the ice and tried to scooped up most of the water. “We might have to take it apart to get it to the village. But we we might be able to take it in three pieces. I took a small saw out of my pocket started cutting the computer. I cut off the big screen and we both carried it to the village, after that we took the base, then the control panel.

We were nearly heroes to the village, we collected these computers for parts for other machines and weapons. We ate had dinner that night in the dining hall, we ate the tiger we killed and also put the water in the Big Tank, we also ate a large turkey and it's eggs. That whole night was one of happiness, well most of it anyway. Later, almost sun rise, a large Wave attacked the village. The had to set the gate up as fast as we could, we set up the spikes on the wall, and threw sulfur bombs over the wall. After hours of fighting the Wave, they left with few creatures left.

The next couple days we stayed in the village and behind the wall, for protection reasons. Any time a Wave attacks we stay behind the wall for a couple days, we learned to do that the hard way. One day a Wave attacked the village and we only stayed in for a day, the Wave was just hiding in the woods outside the village, so we learned to stay in for a couple days after attacks.

The day we were aloud to leave the village me and Francis left to find supplies for the village, such as food, electronics, or medical supplies, some times ever forgotten weapons, but we rarely find those. We looked all day fruit and vegetables in our normal spot, but everything was gone, the Wave most have eaten everything in the last couple days, we had to venture outside our normal area, which wasn't safe.

Still all day we looked, nothing but a few old cell phones, a calculator, and a small bottle of medicine.

So we headed back to the village, but it was a long way, we had get to the village before sun down, because that's when Glowworms come out, and you don't want to caught by Glowworms, so we had to hurry. We hurried along as fast as we could.

We had to pass the marsh, which was terrifying, be cause a leech Wave lived in it, you could see the it move under water at times, I took hours to move through the marsh, at the end we woke up the leach Wave, we ran, and we ran fast. When the village was in sigh, we yelled for them to get ready to close the gate. We ran through and the gate closed. The wave smashed the gates down and we ran into the underground bunker.

I'm writing this now, in the bunker, the leech Wave is right outside, we might not make it through the night. The black smith brought all the weapons into the bunker, the mayor said that all food is down hear, and the extra supplies. We probably won't make it, Francis was bit by a leech, he might turn into a worman. God help us all...

Funny Polly

By: James B. Davis

I walked out side early in the morning, the sun was just coming up, I had head phones in, and I walked down to the mail box. There was nothing in it though, so I just walked back up to the house and on the couch, I turned on the TV, and put on my favorite TV show. The episode was season finally and left with a cliff hanger, and a rather shocking one at that. It was seven in the morning by the time the show was over, and my kids John and Annabel were waking up.

They came out, grabbed their cereal, and turned on their favorite cartoon. They ate their breakfast and went outside to play. I went to take a nap while they played outside, and I had the most horrible dreams.

I dreamed that I was in a room full of people dancing and having fun. There was a large stage in the center of the room, it had a to big pillars leading to the roof, and one huge speaker at the end of it. . All of a sudden the room went dark, a spot light appeared on the stage an almost tall silhouetted man stood on the stage alone, with a tall top hat, tall boots, and a black and white stripped suit. A microphone stand stood in front of him. “Do you like to have fun,” He yelled into the micro phone in a nasally English accent “cause I have a fun game to play!” He continued. He point straight at me and a spot lit on me. “Get him, have fun,” yelled over the micro phone “the one who brings me his head gets the prize!” he cried and every one in the room ran at me and started taring at me, and ripping me apart. I woke up in a cold sweat, “Damn.” I rubbed my face.

I walked outside and called for my kids “John? Annabel? It's time for lunch.” they came running to he door and ran past me into the house. They sat down at the dining room table and gave them their lunch, and I sat down myself to eat. “We made a new friend.” said Annabel “Oh yeah, what his name?” I said “Funny Polly.” John said “That's a strange name. Where's he live?” I asked “I don't know.” Said Annabel “Do you John?” I turned my head John “No.” He said shaking his head “Well, what's he look like?” I asked “He wares a bit tall hat, he's really tall, he wares a black and white stripped suit, and long black hair.” said Annabel, I looked at her with a half shocked look on my face “How old is he?” I asked “He's a grown up.” John interrupted “I need you NOT to talk to him any more, okay?” I said “But da...” they cried “Okay?!” I interrupted “Fine...” they both said at the same time.

I let them both go back outside, but again told them not to talk their new friend. I sat down on the couch again to watch something, but I couldn't stop think about the dream, and what the kids said, Funny Polly sounded just like the guy in my dream. I couldn't find anything to keep my mind off of it, so I went to go check on the kids. They weren't in the front yard like before. I ran to the back yard and looked around nothing, so I ran to the alley to them playing in the alley, they looked like they where talking to someone behind a garage.”Guys? You need to stay in the yard.” they didn't hear me it seemed so walked toward them, when I got to the garage they where at, no one was there, “Who were you guys talking to?” I said as I crouched down to their level. “Polly.” said Annabel “I said not to talk to him. You guys have to promise you wont talk to him anymore, okay.” I said while looking back and forth at them both, “But dad he's our friend.” Said wile frowning “I don't care, you can't talk or play with him any more, now you have to promise.” I said “Okay, dad.” They both said.

I put them to bed that night with a baby monitor in the room. “What's that for daddy?” asked Annabel “Well... I just want to make sure you guys are safe.” I said as was I was plugging in the baby monitor. I walked out of the room and went to bed. Later that night, I heard the kids laughing through the monitor, and got out of bed. I cracked open the door to see them sleeping. I closed the door and went to get a bottle of water. I opened the fridge and grabbed a bottle and saw a shadow move in the doorway. I slowly walked toward the door way that lead to the living. I saw a shadow run up the stair leading to the kids' bedroom.

I ran as fast as my legs would take me, I came into the kids' bedroom and John and Annabel were gone. I say a trail of blood lead to the closet and I slowly walked toward the closet. It opened and John feel out covered in blood, I turned around to high pitch laughter, and saw a tall man with a top hat, a black and white stripped suit, long hair, and face that looked like a skull with tight skin laid over top it. He had Annabel in his arms, he was draining the life out of her as she turned to skeletal rag doll. I jumped on the man, Annabel hit the ground hard, and he pinned me to the floor. He held up one of his hands and long claws came out of his finger tips. He dragged them across my face while laughing hysterically, the claws dug into my skin leaving five long cuts in my flesh. He turned to smoke and floated away out the window. I then heard the police running up the stairs. What did it matter, my children where dead, what else did I have? I simply let myself be dragged away, and thrown into the car.

I live in a mental hospital now, but I really don't care. I'm sitting hear in my cell and I have a bottle of bleach, I'm gonna drink it. I'm writing this so that people know my story, good by...

Centipedes Part II

I walked toward the bag, it was looked like a heart beating. I touched the bag and it moved even more and burst open. Worms, leeches, and centipedes poured out. They scattered throughout the room and disappeared. I looked around in terror, I again moved my bedding back onto the bed, and sat up in bed all night, and never slept.

At sun rise I walked out into kitchen and my aunt was making food. I sat down at a chair I was at all times looking around, my aunt looked at me confused, “George?” I just continued to look around “George!” “What?” I said “You okay?” she asked “No, not at all.” I got up and walked away. I walked upstairs to the bathroom. I sat down on the toilet, and still looked around very paranoid. I saw things move around in the corners of eyes. I tried to hurry, when the drawer open in front of me and a huge centipede came out, I pulled up my pants and ran out of the bathroom. I bumped into my aunt with my back, I turned to see my aunt with leeches, worms, and centipedes dripped from her mouth and eye sockets, I screamed and fell back, I crawled backward toward the staircase. My aunt stumble toward me trying to speak, I heard one word, “Hunger.” I got up as fast I could as a wave of leeches, worms, and centipedes came from the bathroom and washed my aunt away.

 Once I reached the door the ground in front of it burst open and a giant centipede crawled out, this centipede was at least four feet long, it crawled onto me and I threw it off of me. I ran to the backdoor. In front of the backdoor was a large pile of leeches. So I ran to the window and jumped out hitting my head. The next thing I know I'm in a police station, and big police officer walked in and sat next to me. “So George, what happened?” he said “I don't know.” I said “Really? Well, I think you do know, and that you killed you're aunt.” he said and leaned back in his chair. “What the hell did you just say!” I yelled and he got up in a hurry and right in my face. Another officer came in through the door “Leave the poor boy alone Lew.” said the police officer, he sat down in front of me “I'm sorry George, I have to apologize for my partner” said the officer “Before you even start, don't play the good cop, bad cop on me.” I said “Well I'm sorry.” he said as he got and walked around the table both the officers grabbed me by the shoulders and forced me out the door and hallway. The two police officers threw me into a dark room, I couldn't see anything, but I could hear it, a clicking, the light turned on and a thousand squirmy creatures filled the room, I banged and banged on the door, I saw the officers standing outside laughing, that was the last thing I saw...