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Flat on the floor again I didn’t even feel the impact on the shoulder I landed on
"HELP! SOMEBODY!" I squealed I wished I knew the nahbors "HEEELLLLPP!"
The last cry ended in a croak
The cell phone screay froht arm, I reached out for a phone that seeers on top of it, then dragged it across the carpet towardthe hand was like trying to fish a stuffed aniae was from John
"JOHN!" I screamed at the phone, stupidly I slapped at the buttons with ht to lift e appeared
Penis
My arm went dead My head bounced off the floor Spinal cord totally unplugged noas staring across an expanse of carpet, seeing tuathered under the TV cabinet across the room Couldn’t look away--didn’t even have that much muscle control Couldn’t close my eyes
I could hear, though, and I detected the ever-so-faint rustling of carpet, h the fibers Hard, black, jointed legs shuffled into view The spider completely filled s everywhere A half dozen of them were coated in nacho cheese sauce
The creature’sas mine, surrounded by needle-thin mandibles Two lips parted and I saith revulsion that it had a pink tongue, exactly like a human’s It inched towardblack legs extending past both ends of the horizon I could count the taste buds on its lolling pink tongue, could see the wet ridges of the roof of its listened with so e, furry nose descended into my field of vision, like the fuzzy snout of God Hih about the situation to wander in from the kitchen
Her nose twitched as she detected the smell of nacho cheese She licked the spider, discovered that her y dream had finally come true: naturally cheese–coated prey With a snap of her jaws and a quick twist of her head, she ripped off four of thethe noise that made my bones vibrate It sped from view so fast I had no idea what direction it went
29 Hours Prior to Outbreak
Paralyzed
Was this per ing s, realizing there wasn’t much meat inside the crunchy outer shell She settled in and pinned the legs under her front paws, then started carefully licking the cheese off of them
I lay there for an interminable amount of time that in reality was about one hour I eventually felt a tingling across ined I had landed on an anthill It was, however, the feeling returning to my body Twenty ers, a half hour after that I was sitting upright on the sofa, cradlinghead inout any thoughts of what the spider had intended to do to gs …
Oh, wait The spider It could still be here Shit