I was at my grandmother’s with my grandparents, parents, a couple men who were either friends or family, and Carley (my sister). The unnamed men took Carley out to play. After a while we felt that something was wrong. I looked outside and didn’t see them, until I looked toward the road. Only the two men were there, standing straight, silent. I heard a deep voice come from there, loud and demanding, to “Sit. Now stand. Sit again.”
The men did so with uncanny precision. Then as if magnetized, something literally pulled them across the lawn, their feet not touching the ground, and they disappeared in the neighbor’s yard. I had some immediate, terrible realization that they had been abducted by some incomprehensible alien fleet. I rushed inside. The others had seen the same as I. My mother told me, with wide eyes and almost a bit of humor in her voice, that I had to answer the door to save them. I told her no. No, I couldn’t. Then the loud knock came from the door. My heart jumped, everyone looked at me in anticipation. I finally opened the door.
I was taken through some kind of genetic scan, in which I became aware of several deeds in my life, and a voice guided me with specific facts such as “Thus 14 out of every 117 humans are truly good.” They were scanning the earth for the good of humanity. Those who did not pass the scan were eliminated; those who did pass were taken to a strange world, with choked cities and a population of physically unusual creatures. I was taken there, as I was considered “truly good”. They transformed my body into the shape of a hand holding up the index finger (#1). My face was where the index finger would be, but my eyes were where the thumb would be. It was very disorienting, but apparently an honor to be shaped such a way.
I was now back with my sister and mother. I recall a sense of extreme paranoia that was shared only by us three. My sister told us of a man in dark clothes stalking her. I saw the same apparition everywhere I looked; out by the tree in my grandmother’s front yard, outside of the grocery store, anywhere out in the open, or just beyond my periphery. It was like an ape, yet a man. Other times it was a bulky humanoid with the head of a dog. I decided to test my sanity by opening the “nature” folder on my computer and going through to see if I would see the dark apparition. To my shock yet relief, I saw the apparition run across the picture, a fleeting illusion. It was proof to me that I was only hallucinating…then I turned around, feeling a strong sense of being watched. Two men in suits, holding suitcases, were standing by the door. Abruptly they rose into the air, not breaking form, jolted to the left, and like ragdolls were thrown right through the wall, not leaving a speck of dust behind.
Terrified, I walked outside into the darkness, feeling it was all I could do. By the road a bus sat idly. My neighbor was standing there, a big, unnatural smile on his face. The bus was filled with people, all quiet and sitting straight. My neighbor told me that ‘they’ were going to destroy them. I only caught the last detail; “Burn.”
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