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Ghost of the Dead Squirrel Rises From the Pot!!!

You are about to reach into the cupboard for the pepper when you hear a quiet, steadily rising whistling sound...

Suddenly, you drop your soup spoon with a horrified gasp. Your heart nearly stops beating...for there, rising from the pot, is the ghostly form of the poor, innocent squirrel that you so viciously murdered.

You are rooted to the spot in which you stand. You can barely breathe. The squirrel ghost flutters about the room a bit before settling down in the sink. You watch in horror as its little hands manipulate the drain plug. It lifts the drain plug up and out, unleashing a geyser of rancid blood.

The blood coats the ceiling, walls and floor, the stench nearly unbearable. And still the blood keeps shooting out of the drain. You are coated from head to toe. You can barely see anything in front of you. You stumble blindly, searching for the doorknob, slipping on the blood to crawl across the floor. The squirrel ghost swirls around your head, nipping at your nose, face and ears with its tiny, razor-sharp teeth. You scream in agony and disbelief.

The squirrel ghost hisses and whispers, "Blood, yes ... blood you took from me and mine, blood from a hundred 'clean kills', a thousand 'great traps'. Blood of rat, cat, dog, mouse ... all the small 'vermin' that you and yours have killed. But now you are the vermin ... and what do we do to vermin ... ?"

Just then, the door bursts open, and dozens upon dozens of dead animal spirits enter the room. Cats, chipmunks, mice, flies, pigeons and chickens. A transparent, hairless poodle pumps across the floor, legless. Soon, there are dozens of howling ghosts swirling about, wrapping you tightly in spiderwebs secreted from their filthy spinnerettes.

You wriggle out the door like a giant maggot, gasping for air. Lightning flashes and thunder shakes the ground. The wind whips violently through the trees.

You see headlights in the distance. Someone is pulling into your driveway... "HHHHELLLLLLPPPP!!!", you scream....


Written by Steven Foley

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