The thought of his getting into his bed to sleep was no comforting. He considered finding a place to rest near the old Campbell plant. There was a patch of woods there and he was fairly sure they wouldn’t be able to find him.
But who was he kidding? They would always find him.
They’d find him, fuck him, torture him, and turn him into a million monstrosities until they finally dropped him back like a pile of wet laundry. So what was the use?
Yes, he’d go to his house. If they were going to finally take him forever, he wanted it to be on his terms. When he got to his house, his neighbor Donny Howland was outside watering the lawn (who waters the lawn at ten to midnight?) and Robert gave a final wave to the man who, despite being an annoying neighbor, wasn’t that bad of a guy.
Once inside, Robert poured himself a glass of milk, added honey to it, and sat down on the most comfortable chair in the house. Then he put his headphones on and started listening to his favorite song.
Billy Idol’s New Future Weapon.
By the end of the song, Robert Smith could feel his skin burn and his bowels heating up like an oven full of fecal bread. Idol’s voice lulled him into a hypnotic state as the visitors entered his home and took him away.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Jordan Krall is the author of Piecemeal June, Squid Pulp Blues, Fistful of Feet, King Scratch, and Beyond the Valley of the Apocalypse Donkeys. Readers are encouraged to contact him at jordankrall.wordpress.com
Ash Lomen is clinically insane and currently hiding from the mental wards in Southern Louisiana. His only friends are cats and an imaginary mechanical worm with the head of Willem Dafoe. He is also the author of Swallowed by the Horizon, a chapbook of bizarre and deranged Western poetry/short fiction.
Copyright
Blow Up the Outside World © 2010 Jordan Krall and Ash Lomen
Extras © 2011 Jordan Krall and Ash Lomen
Originally published as a chapbook by Bucket O’ Guts Press
Cover art by George C. Cotronis
This new electronic edition (with bonus stories) is a product of Green Hum Press with permission from Bucket O’ Guts Press.