Mobile
They stand together in the doorway looking at the crib.
Acolyte and Hammerhead, Predator, Global Hawk and Reaper dance in currents of air.
One says: It is better to learn to take solace from them than it is to be always afraid.
The mobile casts shadows across the sleeping child's body.
The other says: They look like a cloud of wasps.
Together, they are looking.
Still, it's better this way, one says and shuts off the overhead light.
Acolyte and Hammerhead, Predator, Global Hawk and Reaper dance in currents of air.
One says: It is better to learn to take solace from them than it is to be always afraid.
The mobile casts shadows across the sleeping child's body.
The other says: They look like a cloud of wasps.
Together, they are looking.
Still, it's better this way, one says and shuts off the overhead light.
This gives me the creeps, Stephen. (Especially the part about the wasps.)
splendid sinister displacent of chicks puppies and kittens by seek and destoyware in the mobile.
"Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability."
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Yup, creepy. Knots my stomach.
"Still, it's better this way"
I think that pretty much sums it up.
thanks much for the reads and comments. i like that the story creeps people out....
When I read this, I think of Giorgio de Chirico.
That's a very good thing.
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