thursday, october 28


the tale of THE SLUG INVASION!!


once upon a time a certain girl by the name of, oh, let's say JENNIE, was in her bed, trying in vane to get some sleep. she had tried watching her favourite movie (the terminator). she had tried reading until her eyes felt like they had been rubbed by salt. she even tried listening to a bland mix of soft classical music, but to no avail. nothing, godDAMNIT, NOTHING had worked.

she decided to go to extreme meassures. she switched sides in her bed so that her feet were where her head and pillows usually rested. as soon as she rested her head in the new direction, magic seemed to take place. her grainy eyes soon softened, and she could feel her breathing slowing down to an even pace.

"success!" she thought, and smiled ever so slightly, waiting to completely zone out. she was just there on the edge, when suddenly. what? something is tickling my cheek!! er, i mean, her cheek...

thinking it was perhaps some hair on the pillow causing the tickle, jennie ignored it and continued to drift. tickle tickle. eyes wide open, right hand up to cheek, grabbing the disturbing element and flinging ..something.. into the room.

"what the hell was THAT?"

she had distinctly felt a wetness about it. perhaps some wet tissue had lain forgotten on the bookshelf above the bed and had accidently fallen down? but.. the girl wrinkled her nose as she realised that that made no sense.

slowly she sat up in her bed and leaned over to turn the light on. she looked back down onto the pillow to see if any clue was to be had, only to spot a thin, wet trail leading from the edge of the bed, up onto and across the pillow to where her head had been...

full of dread the girl took a deep, deep breath, grabbed the edge of the bed hard, hard, and look down onto the floor and...

A SLUG! A BIG, BLACK, WET, LONG, THIN, EVIL SLUG was on the floor right next to the bed.

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yes. i really did have a slug invasion a few years ago, in my tiny little house back in sweden. when this happened i actually thought my brother had placed it in my room as a prank, and i cussed him out a lot over it. then i found two more slugs in my room... and 5-6 tiny slug babies on various spots of my floor, all within a span of about 3 weeks.

i never did feel quite comfortable in my room after that. we couldn't find an entrance where they might have come in, so i grew paranoid about my great, big lug of an ancient bed and had it thrown out and replaced by a thin metal army bed.

*shudder* - i'm actually not sure if i've told this story before or not, but it's one of my few 'scary' stories that i always tell people, and i figured, what better time to write it down than for my halloween entry.

i have the day off tomorrow, so there won't be any new entries until next week. below are some sub-sections of today's entries. HaVe a GhOuLiSh Halloween!! Dress up or have me come beat you! BOO!



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