Sunday, August 14, 2016

I had a little Stephen King moment



I had a Stephen King moment.
It happened this evening after work. I needed to go to the grocery store and pick up some ingredients for my evenings dinner. Nothing complicated, just a few quick ingredients. 
The store was not crowded .No long lines at check out or aisles full of people standing in front of that item I wished to grab off the shelf .  And then the image hit me.

So, as the song goes – I don’t want to fade out  , I want to …

FADE IN :
Daytime. Summer .Birds singing.Peaceful afternoon as people go about their day.  Foot traffic is steady in and out of the big box supercenter grocery store. I enter the store and approach the produce center in search of some strawberries.
Inside, families, couples and individuals select their items . It’s a typical scene on a Sunday afternoon.
Until it happened.
An intense vibrating klaxon sounds
And in an instant throats are slit. Strangled. And stomped on .  Husbands go at their wives throats with car keys. Mothers knock their young children to the floor and begin to stomp on the necks with an angry intensity. Strangers grab strangers and strangle them to till the bodies drop .
And then a second klaxon suddenly sounds and the assaulting individuals fall to the floor.

…see……this is what happens when I go to the grocery store hungry. Never ends well

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