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"Mr Jones, if you would like to live for

  • "Mr Jones, if you would like to live for a few more centuries, we'll have to give you an intelligence booster shot first." Mark cringed and whined, "But my cat got extended without

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  • one!" The felinoid nurse rolled its eyes. "Mr. Jones, this intelligence booster is to help you survive the advent of our kind during your extended lifespan." Mark eyed the needle

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  • dubiously as the felinoid continued: "We've reviewed your SAT scores and they are atrocious." "That's not fair!" Mark exclaimed. "That was before they ditched the analogies!"

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  • "Analogies," hissed the felinoid, "were outlawed in 2274 along with free speech and crisps. Your SAT scores are criminal AND crap!" Mark gulped, then grabbed a shiny sweet wrapper

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  • He read the foreboding message: "All is gone besides what you have conquered." Mark flashed back to 2260 - that day of horror -

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  • when the city toppled around him, and his people cried in anguish. Again, the screen blinked, and Mark saw another message, this one more foreboding: "If you care for her, you

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  • will do as you are told. Now put the money in her hands or else you get the hose again!" The screen suddenly went dark. He blinked.

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  • "Dammit," he thought as he put another quarter into his television. The picture flared up again. " Clarice, have the lambs stopped scream..." and then went dark again. "DAMMIT!"

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  • I was out of quarters. I was alone in the silence now...and it was growing late. I couldn't help thinking of my cousin, Mary, who... Then the bleating started. Or was it bleeding?

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  • No, I think it was bleating. Mary could not stand that i had

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1 Comments

  1. bearshoes84 Jan 20 2016 @ 14:13

    Spoopy. I like it.

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