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worms #1
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worms #1“escape”
story & words:Brian John Mitchellartwork:Kimberlee Traub
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It’s storming violently &I’m surprised when thedoorbell rings.
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I go downstairs & openthe door & it’s somebig guy in a black suit.
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Hold on a second.
Is your father here?
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I close the door in hisface, not letting him in.
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I go up to my father’sstudy & knock & openthe door.
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Nothing is what I’mused to it being in theroom.
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The only light is from adesk lamp & a light onan aquarium.
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The aquarium has abunch of pink eels in it.
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They look like intestineswith teeth.
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My father is in somekind of military uniform(I thought he workedfor a corporation?).
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He’s just staring at acomputer screen.
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He’s loosening his tie& unbuttoning the topbutton of his shirt.
I know all about it.
There’s a....
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He’s typing away & Ihear gunshots.
Let’s see whathappens now.
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A metal tube shoots outof the floor & my dad’sgrabbing the eels &dropping them down it.
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I back out of the room& a guy in a suit knocksme down back into thestudy.
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He shoots my fatheras he’s dropping thelast eel in the pipe.
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He shoots my fathertwice more in the head.
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I can see quarter inchholes going all the waythrough him, but thereisn’t any blood.
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My father falls onto thepipe & it slides upthrough him as he goesto the floor & there stillisn’t any blood.
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The worms are gone. Probably shotdown to the basement.
He’s down.
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He leaves & I’m scared.
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It takes me a moment,but I get up & go acrossthe hall to my bedroom.
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I look out the window &half the yard is filled byfast moving water &arcing blue electricalbolts.
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I knock out the window.
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I jump out to a tree &jump & climb my wayfrom tree to tree acrossto the neighbor’s yard.
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The blue bolts aresplitting some of thetrees.
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Some of the trees fall tothe ground, but most ofthem stay up leaningagainst each other.
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I look to the house &my mom’s on thedeck.
How’d you get overthere?!
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I go back the way Icame, only it’s easierbecause the partiallyfallen trees lessensthe number of jumps.
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I climb into my room &I go downstairs.
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One of the men is inthe dining room talkingon his headset.
After we get the worms,total clean up. Burn thehouse down.
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The basement door isopen & the basementis full of water…
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…& there are three menwith one of the worms.
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The worm’s now eightinches in diameter & atleast ten feet long…
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…& they’re putting itinto some long glasscontainer.
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They’re too busy tonotice me.
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& I go to the livingroom & to the deck &take my mother’s lefthand with my right.
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On the way back to myroom I grab a gunsitting on the floor nextto one of the glasscontainers.
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We make it back to myroom & she’s scaredto jump.
I can’t... I can’t do it....
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I’m literally pushingher out the windowwhen she jumps.
It’s only a few feet & youdon’t have a choice.
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Where do youthink you’re going?
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I don’t bother to think. Ijust turn & start pullingthe trigger & the gunblams four times.
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He takes a bullet inthe left shoulder & hedoesn’t even lose hisbalance.
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He’s bleeding; I can’tsee it, but I can smell it.
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I turn & jump out thewindow.
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I spread my arms like Ireally think it will makeme fly.
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I end up landing onone of the fallen trees& I’m moving as fastas I can.
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I see one of the wormsin the river that wasour yard. It’s at leasteighteen inches wide& it’s writhing.
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The broken trees arefalling completely &going along in the rushof water, including theone I’m on.
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There’s one of the bluelightning bolts hittingthe worm.
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The bolt’s coming fromthe eyes of the man Ishot who’s hangingout the window.
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I keep floating on thetree & I can’t see thehouse anymore & Ican’t let go of the gun.
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