A story about a sickly neighbor and the secrets he bares.
Slither
Written by Joshua Bates
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and I have a story. I want to tell you a story.
about a sickly neighbour and the secret she bears
together on around listen close
yeah
There are some
not come
I know the last time we talked over the phone
coming back to spend time with me before I
went away.
how could we placed it
you're right
When you said that our relationship,
there's a man the same since your own boy was hatched into this world
You couldn't have realised it
I can see you unholy him
is the face of the Bush powers.
My childhood neighbour.
affected or life forever. You cannot come
I know the only way is for you to understand just why that is
so here is gone
He is
Much powers was our neighbour in the year of nineteen sixty eight
back in those days. The word neighbour applied
two houses you could make out on the horizon. If you stood on the front porch and squinted your eyes just right,
lived in one country
Capering all around us was the unwavering flicker of wheat and.
A single dirt track road stretched out east and West
the world's oldest snakeskin dramatically.
Hot days spirit,
heavy clouds.
You could see the arrival of a guest five minutes before they cast their engine onto your plot like
So few.
Humiliating the air, was I
it all down in the first year.
Sixteen year old boy.
I've spent my summers and winners
under my father, we
the plot of land that would be laughed at in comparison to today's massive lands,
but we managed what we could. All night,
took up our job. I'm sure the farmers help me pick raw
in the O Sullivan feels.
wailing. Hey Mr Gillis
these mines, which were faster.
Rickety boards, lamps vows
metals, scrapped
did your arms like poking fingers that left dark red rashes.
It was clear from a young age that the life of a farm or might not be my rest, stop
Usually you would see me purged under a tree in the late afternoon, a book prompt in
one hand
one, a mom like very muffins, and the other
The work was necessarily globally.
It certainly good me
I wasn't that I had grandiose thoughts of being an astronaut, like my child
friend, John, come lousy. Who is apt to be seen gazing at the sky with spittle run.
From his lab.
My body simply rejected farm life, much less
fish refuses the toxic air of humanity,
during days trooped in the corner of bonds, re laughed
my nose would gosh White slam that rule
From my nostrils and gelatinous globs my face,
path, bright, red, my eyes. Local
God gotten into Jimmy O, Neill Special horrible garden, methought no one knew grew in the middle of his cornfield.
Was common practice for me to go through multiple bandanas day. Blowing
smart and swear in great make hawks.
Even then, I understood dedicating myself to farming with award me life full of certainties,
I would flounder and my own flam certain that the chair
Hey would flay open my skin time and time again.
turning. My arms into torches,
smaller, like hot ash spent fifty years since
ass touched a haywire.
Fifty long years,
but even now,
who feel that certainty, never leaving those endless fields snake
inside me,
someone must powers requested come work for him that summer sixty eight
While I was over the moon with relief who
if he was riddled with some disease. She would rather not speak more on what
sixteen year old boy thinks more.
The way MR powers looked when making
request and our driveway mom like trying to cope.
The early June son. His face
watch shadow, mostly concealed
city bowler, had it was
My father would looked at me and asked what I thought I had
dug out. My hand most powers as if that was all that was needed, said on the matter weekly
tat the young,
thinking oh
he pulled away who cared
he left dregs of shared skin on my hand,
star was out of the clutches of farm work.
Cookie meals,
cleaning his house,
Turning to his bed, pan
so much more than the burning stance spend up
working with the other form and the best part
Most powers needed me every day from Sun
the sun now until
nurse Kay
during the dry days of July and August, a practical action.
the harsh ways of summer quickly,
the new year outside noon,
the first two months. If someone
leaders did most powers housework,
My school's graduated from still
scrambled eggs, mercosur to omelettes, made fresh
from the virtual Gordon much what force
One down window should collect.
the daily paper from his mail box set crooked
It withdraw boy,
see MR powers is often she might think
his daily meals are served him in his path would quickly. Asher me from his room.
here? For you see
once during a wicked July, thunderstorm that caused the roof, spout leaks of running water.
I came into his room on announced with a new bedsheet in some buckets
when I walked. Linens had been thrown across his ankles running down his chest and crisscrossing axes were blue brains, stickers.
I thought I could see them policy there were.
A meal
body. Over serpent slither across amid dresses, missed powers in shades of awkward
through his skilful chest, I could see the throb of his heart go like black one, duly slither down,
if the market,
Two powers, I didn't mean to walk on you like this
put out all once women,
Powers cut me off.
It's not a problem free.
His face were strained
This version
standing there that day,
mistakes in my eyes over the fact of his very evident sickness.
This one. How was he sick with anyway
all these years later
I realize my fear of all those eyes of his
staring at me.
with hypnotic obsession
hunger eyes
members. Thank you
you're, incline boy, I'm sure
he had said
Tensions must be put on hold dreadfully tired.
In his words scuttled from his mouth and slow crawl. Those
Predator eyes of his holy gaze
He bade me with by that day with fingers
spider strains
do you know when it's time for another to die?
hope. You see the sign, son,
as I ignore them. That day,
Fourth, nineteen
externally
death
the universe is over Caston Broody,
the type of air you feel right before tornado slam?
itself, down and swords dancing around
This morning I have woken up early and made my mother and Father Homemade French, toast Chris Bacon and a crock of fraud.
Strawberry sort of way
slipping out the door. Firmest powers is pies. I left a note. Breaks
is on the table. George amount for the morning be back later tonight, love Jeffrey
moves around splotch on the paper. Were strawberry drift,
in the ten years were heaped with ugly memorizes. The growing adult
stood jump from the mast earns desperately
clipping at their wings and last way to cling to those long
days of you.
Well, I'm glad I love that
for whatever horror I witnessed,
that day, I'm happy.
have that small spark of life.
The more year that day was unusually cool and stiff
I remember where she grabbed my raincoat before leaving most powers
Moved under a quarter mile from us down, the road is driveway marked by the leaning mailbox powers. I quickly
Hurried down the gravel to his house,
on any given day. You would normally be greeted by a gardener. Sunflowers missed powers kept on the west side of the place.
though by no means a grove of flowers
the little master yellow in black heads bobbing to their silent siren calls was usually a tranquil experience.
rounding. The band of his driveway
first did not notice. What struck me is on
My mind been focused on the quality of the air
is there going to be a tornado today were dead and mombi, ok getting into our seller. Our
get MR powers down his over the side of
the dead flowers nearly pass me by.
was drawn on the earth like a legion of fallen soldiers,
Those are moved. Closer
saw their stocks. Header
chewed frayed looked them? Missouri
I'm predator of the Mai and a taste for the flash of flowers holes punctuated dirt
There wasn't a wind
I swear to you at air was stiff as frozen nails, but I d
amputated head of a sunflower rolled toward where I stood most
of its yellow, leaves curled into the husks resembled knuckles
and buzzed shaking
silently use of stuff
this means the right
see Sandra drew open like her lap
scheme
revealing an orange. I
swimming with insects,
like the way with dark,
and his gaze peered up at me,
made her corner
newly cry of joy,
A longer
more of not backed away
my groping blindly for the boar knob eyes. Never leave sunflower air,
before I realized in my butt,
I'd slammed itself against the door. There's four earlier.
The handle locks sluggishly,
The I began role, George, where I stood at last.
Try out of orange slime, worried what fat body touched. I could feel
Fear punching my chest with heavy
fire fists,
then for the first time that day, I thought about death as something real
tangible
less was nineteen sixty eight so that movie right draws the aliens it so?
gone to your face, hadn't, come into existence.
is that I continued its gelatinous role towards me.
I had a vision reaching out with razor like tentacles pulling my face towards it
I could see myself getting closer and closer to its dead gaze.
She wins flies buzz around its pupil. Could feed
wet sack of its job, rising my lips,
MA fell through the doorway. Finally, realising are needed to push the door open
My kitchen linoleum, with a thought Dorothy,
action over terrified kid swam. In the eyes large gaze, as I kick club
the door.
From mine
richer banana maltreated from its reading time. Our duty, my escape
there was then that I realize I had torn a hole and one of the means and what counts in my hands were rash.
slowly back on them
ok, dares dropped.
my palms and spoke to them
no, it's ok to
I was alive
my ex moments of on
the remainder of my life.
Options. I chose
long path,
I wish I had fled
open, a window
allow my car Louis from the blocks and have been gone.
well son for action,
the path of love direction. Courage,
all foolish qualities. I have come to realize
Yet we exhibit them all the time
from my mistake:
when leave everyone, you have loved
fail to once do
I put myself off of the kitchen for use in the counters leverage
clean mugs hung from the wall on screws, handles chipped for many
years of youth,
took one of them off their peg for water. I drive
come in time, mug and three desperate gulps believe
forward to fill it again and looked above the sank through the window. The garden
dead. Sunflower heads had rubbed it
crash rolling eyeballs
blankly stupidly winter. In the gray morning
I saw Chickadee Bird land in the grass. A few feet
from the feel
with a flash, washing chemicals reach down and jerked the bird from the earth they are.
And itself. On top of the bird I realized it was digesting the poor creature hole
further were rocketed into the air and shades of brown and blood red. I want to be an astronaut the voice of my friend John, to blouse, hard in my head.
Two hours of her digested french toast flung into this thing. On my side of the window,
was shaking hands are warped. Saliva involvement from my chin. I didn't
want to look outside anymore.
The powers rooms just now
the hall from the kitchen
customary. His door was kept closed.
The second time that summer I entered the room without knocking ceiling, my fate as easily as a fly caught in a web over spider
Everything was all wrong:
start right away. I was
two dark quality into the room, even though the window shades were thrown wide, open
think about when a one case or town lampshade alike,
examiner
underground might feel like the shadows of the heart beats. That's what
it was like in his room and also
Much like that at all,
spent my entire lifetime. Attempting to find a switch that throws.
Off those in human lives forever.
cannot find the right words to turn them off.
It was a line of the room.
I was also the smell it struck me when I entered.
Here lies and animals than I thought
There was a smell of link food clung to the air in an onion after taste.
There was a smell of nine carcass left out, rob
small blackened under a beating son
underneath,
those smiles,
was an odour
flower, some Lee
an old like an open coffin after years of being sealed, shot most
hours? Lay on his tomb of a ban with sheets puddle
on the floor and strips of white and red
entire body. Was the collar of sound
milk occurred. He kind of white
The face she had worn one last time before being ripped apart was
total serenity
his chest once was all crisscrossed
those awful sick tubes and had crept into my dreams. That summer
There now as a whole,
the size of a basketball,
its of white and british Blue sea.
In with you. What's that
deemed and strain I
Something was rising.
cavity of its dark hole.
I now move closer to look
closer to look at me,
First, I didn't understand what I was looking at.
Small orange object was rising
ass of intestines,
whose honour I didn't want to consider,
They saw I thought
jerk, whose jagged and walked like a piece of paper.
Crumpled into a ball infant like crap.
shattered and show an insect like sluggishness. They stay
in and out
warm old body making sloshing noises contracted
of down from the ceiling struck. My head closure
I realise, when I had mistaken to be his intestines,
actually small to do covered comes from red
they were thrashing their infantile bodies against one another, creating a horrible sloping. Sound
their bodies were silky looking and thick
six inches in diameter
bundle of them tumbled from the chest cavity on laughed at the dead man in front of me,
eyes were not required for one, but I watched as one open up its front
caverns. Sharp little teeth by saws
so worms.
slithered up and around on its own
clumps
looks like it's really. I thought then
Suddenly, the honeycomb split into a nest of cracks splintered into nugget sized holdings, something inside was moving something sake and muscular was slithering inside to shell
Mama's away, the thought acted like a gunshot wrote me from my tries to write honeycomb exploded in a spray of doing less about later found my hair, a gigantic snake creature, uncoiled its Bonnie in layers of Marine Corps, Poland, nightmare Bloc, have the body of a six feet wide sewer, pipe
and, like its babies, hit didn't have any eyes, but, as pure held me prisoner mother, snake cracked wide are front to reveal a nest of hundreds of things beats like
daggers strains lie.
We then, for the first time that day added,
thanks. Man
Those are some stepped from his bedside like Canada. Those steps for the last two months after trapped in three, where no matter how much you turn your legs and make the dirt dancer jury. Somehow don't move at all my me, I could hear the slab giant creature crashing down on the hard work. I was a step away from reaching for the door just another piston of the leg, one I slipped on a pool of water from the leaking ceiling landed with my palms shooting across the board meeting. One second for me to think I could still get a year before my left ankle was wrapped in a burning flame. I snapped my head back to see hundreds of worms, war or falling from the bed in pursuit of fresh mama snake saw buried on the side of my uncle. I could feel razor teeth sink into my flesh with delicious ease, her great slithering body, slap back and forth across the floor, creating gouges in the wood live sprayed from my skin and the frosty jeer instinctively I reach them, seized her soul and body with both hands. Its reptilian scales, we're oddly one and stiff, I yank with all of my strength, but she would not tear free bite, intensified and pain, those needle teeth deeper into my skin. I could feel them clawing at my attendance in sickening snaps, one of those baby worms suckled its way onto my shoulder, latched onto the side of my neck with an alarming strength. Fluid ran down the side of my arm, trees too heavy to throw off what gave me. The last story was of all those creatures. Swarming my face see tides and tides of them, borrowing like underground with all my might. I yanked mothers of my uncle and, through our backs scrambling to my feet. I learn door nearly following this. I've tried putting weight on my ankle door gave a screech on its hinges before I was in the hallway again quickly slamming binding. It took me a second to recognise what the circling sound was
I realise that one of the babies,
dangling from my shoulder
its body to twice its size,
splattered against the wall before
ray of red and yellow
Gosh onto a family bore true of the ban.
his family,
Maria.
my vision. You cannot come.
Do you not see it?
New tell you one last quick story that you thought you already knew
Two or three,
mind your mother and I said you
outside and our portable boy ban one evening, some late July.
the girl looking away chicken lies
your mother was hanging clothes from the line.
big, yellow jacket.
Landed on your favorite stuff dinosaur. Rixey,
you swatted at the wars.
The process brown
You were deathly allergic to bees.
Sounds like last year's record ends
What you don't know
here's? What no one has ever heard until now
as your mother drove our station wagon at a reckless pace to the hospital
with you in the back seat here for
said swollen to the size of a watermelon
the Russians, are there were being squeeze through your lungs, like the sound helium makes? Is it leaks from the tank
going to be fine. I kept here
over and over again my chant took
on its own towers, manic rhythm. I give shouting
reason. Is your breath began to slacken, then start
your mother screamed the car and finally emergency room doors, throwing
open our door
she did not see the small tubular warm sprout it from your lips. It wiggled it
Perfect shake and fell under the seat of the car.
Your face was the same Curdy white of a man I had not long ago. I picked up the warm
threw it out the window.
holy an asylum screen.
Europe can no longer be held them,
I'm afraid because
Last week
I noticed a skeletal figure,
staring back at me in the bathroom mirror.
This figure had blue to raising across its chest that slithered, like snakes and a sunflower field,
I'm afraid
because I know I won't wake up
I find myself sworn in that alien life for the second and final time zone.
so I can almost see it seeping through the walls with Eldridge fingers.
Motion, I'm afraid of
what I have in fact. It s worth.
I am afraid of what lies nested inside of me almost
Ready to hatch
me martian
a new,
lies in your own son,
I have no doubt
and if we were all present alien, my, what do you think would happen? What mama
call out the babies
you cannot cancer
you cannot come
with better love, dad.
The serious whisper
the splash flowers and David found, this episode was written by Joshua Bates and read by Jake whether the story was modified slightly fraudulently,
Helen, but you can find the original in full on our website. Full body chose as an audio job protection, somewhat easing job.
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