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.


 

"Preview of a Story"

 

A short unfinished "preview" of a story by Bruce Mcgrew-Davis! 

"Preview of a story" is what we titled it, for the intention of showcasing Bruce's talent for prose here......a foreshadowing of what to expect from this exceptional author in the future.  Any comments or questions please direct them to the webmaster or right here: