Snips And Snails #3

      

          Hi everyone!  Thanks for joining me for another Science Fiction Fantasy Saturday.  I’ve been having a lot of fun sharing from a short story titled Snips and Snails and this week is the third installment.  It’s a short I did a few years ago about fear and what it means in today’s society – kinda.  In case you missed the earlier snippets, jump back on my blog here to check them out.  I did a little cosmetic surgery to the site but still with the same great content and half the calories.  Make sure you check out all the great authors over at SciFiFanSat.blogspot.com and get your weekend fill of science fiction / fantasy.  It’s a regular cornucopia of reading goodness.  Enjoy.  ‘Nuff said. 

          A door slammed closed and footsteps echoed outside as his tormentor approached.  He braced in the corner of the small room as the door flung open.

          Light flooded the chamber, blinding him as he shielded his eyes with his hand.  He saw the anger in his captor’s eyes and wondered if the contempt in his own was that obvious.

          “C’mon, what are you waiting for?  You can’t hide in my closet all night.”

          Lumbering to his feet, the creature wedged through the small door out into a mess of a bedroom.  Discarded toys and handheld video games lay strewn across the room, interspersed between piles of dirty clothing and the smell of, as best he could determine, three day old pizza stuffed under the bed.      

          Grabbing a tuft of hair on the creature’s arm, the young boy pulled the creature towards a desk in the corner.  A computing device used by some humans sat on the table with a giant viewing device mounted directly to the wall.