This choice: A mother and two daughters • Go Back...Chapter #3Put us down, we're not a toy! by: Chozo   April Collins was out in her backyard making preparations for a neighborhood BBQ with her two daughters, Cindy and Amy. Her husband, Jim, and her other children were in the house watching tv and none of them noticed the nearby flash. Except for Cindy. Cindy was the eldest of April's children, at 20, but she was born mentally handicapped. To all who looked at her, she was a normal looking woman, but she had the limited mind of a small child and was unable to speak and required a diaper.
The Collins' yard was fenced in, and it was normally impossible for Cindy to wander out onto the road, but today something strange happened and half the yard (including the house and all inside it) mysteriously disappeared. Cindy took this opportunity to explore.
Some time passed before anyone noticed. It wasn't until her slightly younger sister Amy, who was lounging in the pool, had tried changing the radio to the local station and noticed it didn't come in that she looked over and seen that the entire town, including their house and half their yard, was gone!
"Mom! Our house disappeared! The entire town is gone!", Amy cried out and jumped out of the pool. Her body was dripping chlorinated water, and visibly trembling from shock.
April was getting the cleaning the grill out for the BBQ when she heard her daughter shouting. Her jaw dropped from the shock of what she seen when she turned around. Most of their backyard was intact, but not far from their house, and for nearly as far as the eye could see, everything was missing. The roads, houses, businesses, everything. But she could see that her mentally handicapped daughter had wandered off near the center of the circle of nothing. "Cindy!", she screamed in fear. Dropping what she was doing, she ran off towards her.
Amy followed close behind; her long blonde hair and green two-piece bathing suit created a trail of chlorinated pool water in her wake as it cascaded down from her running body. As she and her mother got within about 50 ft of Cindy they could see what happened to the town. It didn't disappear; it had shrunk! Most homes weren't much larger than a pack of cigarettes, and the miniature people were no bigger than ants! The two looked on in horror as Cindy reached for something that caught her attention...
Jim Collins and his kids had been indoors watching a sitcom as his wife and two daughters got things in order for the BBQ Jim was preparing to host. The show they were viewing whoever was interrupted by a flash that Jim noticed out the window with the corner of his eye. At that same moment, the tv and all electrical appliances in the house went dead as if the power went out. He went to the basement to check the fuse box, but seen that to be in order and was heading back upstairs when the whole house started to shake. He got upstairs and looked out the window and nearly fainted at what he seen. It was his daughter, Cindy, but she was huge! Big, or maybe even bigger than the largest mountain! Jim's kids, who were also in the house, screamed in terror at the sight of their enormous older sibling.
The colossal girl looked around with curiousity at the spectacle of a miniature town in front of her, thinking it was nothing more than a toy for her amusement. One of the tiny houses in particular soon caught her attention. It kinda reminded her of her own home, and with a smile she reached for it.
Jim added his voice to the chorus of screams as his daughter's green eyes locked directly onto him, and her enormous hand reached down. The house shook and made various sounds as it was uprooted from its foundation and lifted hundreds of feet into the sky before the smiling face of Cindy. She looked it over for a moment, but not knowing what else to do with it she opened her mouth and shoved the house inside.
"No, Cindy! Put us down, our home is not a toy!" Jim screamed, as he and his home were shoved into her cavernous maw.
Cindy's mouth began to involuntarily salivate as her pallate experienced the unfamiliar taste of the shrunken structure. Unlike wood or siding in their normal state, the shrunken materials dissolved easily in the powerful acids of her saliva. Jim and his children could see some of Cindy's and her gums with the small amount of light that poured in from outside. Adding to their fear, they noted that each molar was larger than a car, and there were ropes of spittle that could hold up a suspension bridge!
Not knowing what else to do, the giant girl began to bite down on her toy. The house began to buckle and split apart, and Jim and his kids huddled together in the center of the room as debris fell around them from the collapsing ceiling, and saliva began to ooze in from the crushed walls.
Cindy didn't like the bitter taste of the house, so she rid her mouth of it by...  indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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