They came from the Stars !!
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| on a hot, dry, dusty, summer afternoon in a place familiar to us all, an elderly woman sat fanning herself in a rocking chair on the screened front porch of her old wooden frame house = two houses down the street, sweat soaked lovers lay satisfied and contented in the bliss of their lovemaking = the two lithe, shapely, supple, young bodies tangled in damp sheets on the squeaky springs and feathered mattress of a wrought iron bed now rested and watched the faint June breeze gently wafting the translucence of the thin veneer curtains of the open window = across the dirt alley behind that home, a gangly, shabby, pimple~faced adolescent mumbled and grumbled as he drug a heavy plastic bag of stinking garbage from the kitchen while his mother shouted after him from the back~door that he had better mow the grass or else = that's when it happened..........that's when the attack on earth began = the first casualty of this brutal onslaught from outer space was a sleezy, pot~bellied, tobacco chewing police officer who was writing out a speeding ticket to a beautiful, young woman to whom he hinted there may be a way of paying the fine other than mailing in a check to the clerk of the court = at first the cop didn't know what was happening.......nobody did.....but the cop never found out = he felt a slight tickly sensation as the hairs on the back of his neck stood up from the accumulating charge of static electricity.........that was the last thing that cop ever felt as his skin vaporized off his grimey body right before the very eyes of the young beauty who would now never have to see that speeding fine reported to her insurance company = she tried to scream but no sound came out of her mouth, then a sudden sonic boom deafened her as the first wave of Flying Saucers from outer space entered earth's atmosphere = they initially zeroed in on the technological capability for humans to communicate with each other electronically = all telecommunications were instantaneously knocked out with an earth shaking electromagnetic pulse = the kind generated when a nuclear bomb device is detonated = while the army, navy, airforce and marines scrambled to react, the second wave of Flying Saucers from outer space entered earth's atmosphere = this time some of them actually landed and what was inside the UFOs began marching out down long slanted ramps carrying glowing green tube shaped laser blasters in their reptilian like three fingered claws = they were all exactly the same height, a mere four feet and eight inches = like clones, they all looked exactly the same = a little girl was playing with her dolly in a sandbox........one of those hideous alien creatures approached her in deliberate stride of the shiny, metallic looking boots they all wore = the short, scaley beast stopped at the edge of the sandbox and looked down upon the little girl = her skin was soft as whipped cream and her golden locks shimmered in the sun......she squinted her eyes and held up her dolly to the strange being from outer space, "Do you want to play with Mary?", she asked = the huge, dark, almond shaped eyes of the creature from outer space were as lifeless as stones.........it tightened its grip on the trigger of its raygun, an instant later you couldn't discern the difference between the little girl and the sand in the sand box = the dolly lay on its back with its arms and legs outspread on the sand = the alien creature from outer space moved nonchalantly on into the playground stepping on the face of the upturned dolly with the heel of its alien, tinfoil looking boot as it passed...........children and daycare workers began screaming = at six foot six and two hundred fifty pounds the General was a hulking, Herculean figure of a man = a towering, imposing megalith, he commanded utter and absolute respect and obedience from all in his power = and as far as he was concerned, ALL were in his power = a veteran of three foreign wars and a skilled expert in 3 forms of hand~to~hand combat, the General had his entire body registered as a lethal weapon = "We're at full red alert!", shouted the square~jawed 4~star General, his voice bellowing through the halls of the Pentagon like someone banging on a gong = the wall beside him imploded, sucking off his face in the process = the two Colonels standing immediately to his left recoiled in horror as a regiment of the little green men from outer space began marching into the famed military complex, one stream of them to the right, another to the left = they stepped through the hole in the Pentagon wall with expressionless faces, lifeless eyes = the dark sheen of their grotesquely over~sized eyes reflected the bright reddish~orange flash of their rayguns mixed with the contorted faces of their helpless victims = relentlessly and without mercy they tightened those three fingered claws on the triggers in a succession of buzzing blasts which instantly reduced a full grown adult human body to a small pile of dehydrated, radiated ash = the young woman who the cop had been writing the ticket out to sat motionless in the driver's seat of her car = after a brief lapse of missing time, she turned the key in the ignition, but her auto wouldn't start = she laid her hands in her lap and sat silently staring straight ahead at the shoulder of the road when the third wave began = a blinding flash caused her to slam her eyes shut just as every windshield of her sport coup exploded into a million tiny shards of automobile glass = her face was immediately covered in miniature abrasions, and there she sat, with drooping eyelids and faint droplets of blood dotting her listless expression = at the home of the two afternoon lovers who now stood naked, staring out the open window from behind the veil of country curtains, something snapped inside the female passion~maker = she began to feel numb all over and took a step back from the window leaving her male companion gawking in bewilderment out the window by himself = she clinched her teeth together as she noticed the scrapes her long finger nails had made on his back during their recent passionate embraces = he was oblivious to the change in his newly wed bride as he stared in confusion, disbelief and sheer horror at the bizarre carnage taking place in their normally quiet suburban neighborhood = he didn't turn to notice her until he heard the sound of her grunting from behind him = when he turned to look, he saw with increased confusion and dismay flooding his already disoriented mind that she was tugging wildly at one of the crossbars in the metalwork of their traditional wrought~iron bed = "Darla, what are you trying to do? What is wrong with you?", he asked her frantically, his voice quavering = Darla did not respond.......instead she kept jerking at the iron bar = he stumbled toward her to attempt an understanding embrace when she, suddenly and with what seemed like superhuman strength, ripped loose the iron bar at which she had been furiously tugging = she swung the bar around with all her might = the first time the iron bar struck him was right smack in the face = he plopped down on the floor dead on his rump = sitting upright on the floor, he leaned forward = he tried to speak her name again but had to spit out several of his bloody teeth before he could pronounce words = the second time the iron bar struck him was on the back of his neck = this effectively ended his attempts at communicating with his betrothed because the impact severed his spinal chord depriving him of motor sensory control = with blurring and dimming vision, he rolled into a limp wad, half sitting, half lying on the old fashioned hardwood floor while Darla continued to hammer him with blow after blow of the iron bar = it sounded like someone was beating a big bass drum in his head, then, the lights went out forever = not motion nor sound did he ever muster again as dear Darla continued to wail upon his lumpy body with mad, ferocious, blunt, violence = specks of blood spattered her young, pale face = flecks of brain tissue and human skull got snagged in her long, flaxen hair = all at once she stopped beating her now dead husband, flung her hair from her face, gave a careless sigh and walked stark naked out the front door of their quaint country cottage style suburban home = Sissy, the fluffy collie on the other side of the white picket fence in the yard of the house next door barked viciously at Darla = Sissy had always loved for Darla to pet her, but now she barked at her human neighbor friend as though Darla were a criminal intruder = as though she had never seen her before, like a total stranger = Sissy followed with barking assault as Darla walked the length of the fence, over the sidewalk and into the street = Darla stopped in the middle of the street and stood there naked as the day she was born with her husband's newly shed blood dripping down her pretty housewife face, chunks of what used to be him stuck in her healthy hair = the balmy afternoon sun shone brightly = Sissy, now frothing at the mouth from the exertion of her nonstop barking in the heat of the summer afternoon, barked even louder and meaner = Darla turned toward the sound of an oncoming vehicle = it all happened so fast, in the blink of an eye = a dull thud was heard even over the sound of Sissy's loud, incessant barking as a pick~up truck driven by a panicked business man in a three piece suit slammed heavily into the full front of Darla at a high rate of speed = being hit by a truck going sixty miles per hour made Darla disappear from Sissy's view = Sissy stopped barking and stood with her head cocked to one side, gazing at the place on the street where Darla had been standing only a moment before = the panic stricken business man didn't even know he had hit anything and kept on driving frantically at sixty miles per hour down a neighborhood street with a posted speed limit of only 30 mph = the elderly woman in the rocking chair saw a speeding truck go flying by with what looked like a naked human body plastered into the grill and draped over the hood = the kindly old woman smiled and kept rocking, waving the paper fan to and fro in front of her face = between the third and fourth wave of Flying Saucers entering earth's atmosphere from outer space, an odd looking spherical object descended from the sky = it moved slowly down through the clear cerulean blue until it was about five hundred feet off the ground = there the strange object hovered = its surface was smooth, perfectly round and highly reflective like a mirror = somehow it flashed and pulsed with many colored lights and periodically one of the Flying Saucers would swoop up beside it, float there for a moment, then fly off again at break neck speed = a series of beeps and machine code tones were audible at great distance from the strange, sparkling, throbbing, pulsing sphere in the warm afternoon sky = looking up in awe at the marvelous alien sphere, some people wondered what it was until their bodies were zapped into nothingness by one of the space alien raygun blasts = a squadron of F~22 Raptors from the nearest air force base engaged the Flying Saucers that had come from outer space, but the air superiority tactical defender jets of humans were apparently no match for technologically advanced space craft of the aliens = the Raptors were dropping like flies and even when the flyboys ejected from their burning jets, the brightly flashing attack beams shooting in an array of widening concentric circles from the Flying Saucers vaporized their flight suit covered bodies out of the skies, leaving nothing but jet~fighter parachutes wafting gently down toward the rapidly falling human population of earth = how can you fly by the seat of your pants when the seat of your pants is on fire? from where did they come, these evil beings from outer space who attacked earth with swift deadliness, taking no prisoners, showing no mercy = what did they want? why did they come here? an archaeologist and an astrophysicist in a secret underground laboratory in the city of high metropolitan numbers thought they had the answer, but the lines were dead and they couldn't communicate with anyone outside the research facility = |
to be continued.......................
