Dancing with Monsters

I awakened to the sound of music with a heavy back beat: Thump, drag, thump, drag, thumpety-thump, drag.

Four behemoths surrounded me, circling closer at every turn.

Three were unholy physical specimens, long of tooth and claw. Fearsome in their intent.

The fourth was lame, addlepated, carefully moving one stumpy appendage in front of the other.

Snatching at the box of sanity I kept on my nightstand, I watched and waited for an opening.

When the crippled beast stumbled, as we all knew he would, I dashed between his grasping arms.

Stinging pain sang through my neck, a lucky blow rained down.

I screamed, a tuneless melody of injured flesh, and the beasts paused.

“Yes! Yes!” they all cried out. “Now the dance can begin.”

Author: nananoyz

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