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Collection of my 2025 Bradbury entries |
| Two burly men walked down the sidewalk just before dusk on Halloween night. Kids with their parents walked to and fro, going door to door for treats. These two men were looking for victims. They wanted to abduct a girl in costume and take her to a remote location to rape and kill her. They were looking for a specific type of victim, a female unaccompanied minor. They preferred a girl in junior high school, but they weren’t picky. A trio of girls with long, dark blonde hair stood on the sidewalk, as if waiting for the two men to come closer. They were about thirteen years old. They wore matching outfits of black short sleeved shirts with a white skull and crossbones on the front, short black skirts with a belt, mid calf boots and matching gloves that extended halfway up their forearms. The only thing that distinguished them from each other were the domino masks they wore and the capes that reached their waists. One girl who was chubbier than the other two wore an orange domino mask and orange cape. The girl in the middle of the three of them had a green domino mask and green cape, and the remaining girl had a violet domino mask and violet cape. The color of their boots and gloves matched the colors of their masks and capes. The bigger of the two men pointed the trio of girls out, mentioning that they would be perfect victims. Before they could act, the girl in the center pulled out a device and aimed it at the two men. One by one, swiftly, they were each reduced down to about an inch tall. Darkness overcame them as they were tossed inside of a cloth sack, and taken somewhere. They lost consciousness. When they awakened, they were still an inch tall. The three girls towered over them, still in costume. “Welcome to the year 3000 A.D. when time travel is common place! The two of you are going to end up in our bellies,” the thicker girl said. “We’ve cast lots to decide who gets to swallow who!” said the girl wearing the green domino mask. “You’ve got a couple of minutes to ponder your fates!” said the third girl. The two shrunken men looked at each other, trying to figure out what was happening to them. For most of their adult lives, they were able to overpower others to get their way, two brutish thugs living in a civilized society. Now the tables were turned, and they didn’t know how to react. “If we had to pick a way to die, being swallowed by a girl isn’t so bad!” said one of the brutes to the other. “I agree!” said the girl wearing the violet domino mask, as she grabbed the shrunken man who had been speaking and casually tossed him into her mouth and swallowed him. Darkness surrounded him as he slid to the back of her throat and was forced down her esophagus. He splashed down in her stomach, with just enough air to breathe if he was very conservative about holding his air in between breaths. Suddenly, he was forced upwards in an eruption of chyme, and forced out of the girl’s mouth and into a bowl. His buddy was treated the same way by the girl who had swallowed him, as well. Two bowls, two shrunken men swimming around in vomit. They were plucked out of the bowls and rinsed in water, and set on the table they had been on before. “My mother is a psychologist,” said the girl with the green domino mask, “and this was all part of an experiment to gauge your reaction to this type of situation for a research paper she’s working on. A mind control device has been monitoring your thoughts and emotions.” “We’re returning the two of you to your own time,” said the girl with the violet domino mask, “but we’ve low jacked the two of you and if you ever try to abduct anyone again, we’ll come back for you, and next time we’ll leave you in our bellies!” They fell unconscious again, because of the mind control device. When they awakened, they were normal sized on the sidewalk in their own time at night, as trick or treaters walked around their prone bodies. As they awakened and talked over their experience, they agreed that breaking the law was a thing of the past for them from now on. The End (751 words) |
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