Theme: Global bank heist Endings: - Success for all 100 million for the 30 million each. - Success for the mastermind and his girlfriend, they kill the rest - Plot foiled by FBI Chief, joins cause and gets a cut - Plot foiled by FBI ambush at their hideout, all...
It was late fall and Jo was jogging with Colleen down Mammoth Mountain. The girls were chatting and planning a Christmas getaway. They were not alone. They were being followed by two men from the woods. The two were stalking the girls like prey. Colleen was...
I've always been weary of my clock. Brown and brass with a tick and no tock. It always sped me up. I've whizzed through life with it ringing in my head. The days got blurry and I noticed myself at the wrong place at the...
[audio m4a="http://www.theplatypuslair.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Eye-Contact-1.m4a"][/audio] There was once a little boy in the land of Bargonia who tied people’s shoes together under tables at restaurants. A clever little fellow, waited until a party was deep in conversation then he crawled unnoticed and began tying. He even tied two different...
There's a door on the ground. I open it. An elegant elderly lady dressed from the early 1900s is laying on the floor. She smiles and begins to crawl up the wall toward the higher ground I'm on. She undoes her hair and wasps fly...
My limbs are bound. I'm 8 feet below the ground. I feel the soil coming down and I'm too shocked to bother. I feel scales graze my back the snake circles but won't attack, they wait till I can't holler. I feel the fangs pierce...
Eyes protruding through the trunks. Bodies in the trees they stunk. Skeletons awake at night they disassemble then get tight. They roam the town this hallow eve looking for whatever breathes. The sun goes down they break the ground. Boney hands on purple necks eyes...
A hand reached from my phone's earpiece and choked me. And another started to punch me. I was asleep. Whatever this thing was was stronger than me and threw me off the bed. It had been awhile since I had sleep paralysis. This was vivid....
I was on assignment as a journalist sent to cover the effects of radiation in the pacific. This was ground zero. I was sent to Japan. I was miserable. My observations at Nagasaki and Hiroshima made me worry about the area surrounding the most recent...