Preview of a Story
by Bruce Mcgrew-Davis
(owned,
written, and copyrighted by Bruce Mcgrew-Davis, used by permission)
...........Tearing into a carton of cigarettes then
a pack after a busy day. Sitting back reflecting on her day sitting beside
her convertible sports car in the parking lot. She then takes out a
cigarette firmly pressing it on her lips and then lighting it taking the
first drag. Taking another drag she says out loud to herself, "These
cigarettes are damn good!" She then thinks about the pleasures of soaking in
a nice hot bath and decides to get in the car and drive it away. She goes
the long way to house this time. Out in the country she hopes the scenic
view of the mountains and smoking these cigarettes can take the horrific day
away. Finally arriving at the carport of her house she has noticed,
quite embarrassed, that she has smoked 2 packs of cigarettes just in that 1
brief episode. She then puts her hand on her chest thinking that she will
feel some sluggishness are pains, she does not.
LATER THAT NIGHT..........
While having a dinner she turns on the television while slowly taking off
her formal dress. She is unaware that she is smoking during this process
through a 1/2 pack. She then completely undresses turning the bath water on
putting in bubbles and her favorite oils while the water is slowly filling
the bathtub. The pink towel that she has wrapped herself in drops to
the floor as she finishes wrapping her beautiful long auburn hair in a hair
piece. She then gets her cigarettes and the ashtray and setting them up
before going sitting in the sultry and caressing hot water. "Mmmmm, oh
yeah," she says out loud as she feels the calm invigorating herself. After a
few minutes of lying in this bath alarmed she looks at the cigarette in her
hand and thinks to herself, "I never smoked in the bathtub before?"
Puzzled
even more she had the ashtray in here as well and thought to herself, "I
definitely never had the ashtray in here as well!"
LATER ON THAT NIGHT....
Tucked away in bed that night she starts to have nightmares of these victims
being tortured by endless diseases and forced to work harder in a never
ending slavery. She hears the wheezing and coughing heart monitors and other
equipment going awry. A brown vile stench covers her, as a endless heartbeat
gets louder then fades away. Softly at first she sees the ghostly images of
yellow teeth laughing and then a voice that says, "Take My Hand, Take My
Hand!" A black gloved hand comes out and then opens. In horror she sees her
hand getting closer taking this black gloved hand. In that second she awakes
from this nightmare gasping, moaning and in a cold sweat. She notices that her
body is aching all over as she falls from the bed onto the floor in front
of the mirror.
Coughing and wheezing for breath holding her chest in a fetal position on her
knees she notices that her body is burning all over going up into arms. She
holds 1 arm up to see if she can see it through the moon light .To her
horror she sees the veins in this arm turn yellow. Gasping in horror she
looks up to the mirror and sees her auburn hair changing colors to green and
then the tears she is crying turning from water to blood then finally a dark
yellow. "Oh god, stop this ,,it's burning, it's stinging!" She cries
out. Finally getting some strength in all this chaos she gets up to look at
herself seeing her night clothes in tatters and her skin has turned grayish
with yellow veins . Her beautiful long auburn is now a green the pain is
getting to unreal for her and she collapses from it unconscious.