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As he read, the blood drained from his face.

  • As he read, the blood drained from his face. Almost reflexively, he looked over his right shoulder, out the window and toward the dip in Madden Road about a half block from his

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  • bunker. It was impossible to see from the road, but a geology study with those seismographic imagery devices would find the empty room. Well not empty. They were still there

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  • inside the rooms, well actually hives. The queen danced around a little, but mostly she laid, giant gelatinous eggs covered in wax. If only she didn't have a human head

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  • he would have thought that she was Tina Yothers. No this mother had a human head.

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  • Yet her body was anything but human; her legs were nearly eight feet long and instead of arms she had what could best be described as lobster claws.... pinchers to be more exact

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  • She was the star of the freak show circuit with lobster claws for arms. The show owners pressed for the stage name of Lobster Girl, but she knew better. She was Sandy Claws.

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  • Her ruddy complexion was distracting, yes. But, it was her sideways movement through the world that defined her. Where the rest of walked forward, she did the sidestep. Dancing

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  • was where her gift (foible?) became most apparent. While others did an ordinary electric slide, she crafted a new dance, which the competition judges dubbed "DC current". Her

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  • muse was Cowboy TV, so of course she won the competition! She celebrated with Cowboy TV by

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  • hoisting his dead carcass into the air, as if she was goading his loved ones into murdering her in a frothing rage. Of course, he didn't actually have any loved ones.

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