Contessa was a tiny worm, undetectable, that lived inside the pillow on Nerissa’s bed. Every night, Contessa would wiggle her way out through a little hole in the corner of Nerissa pillow, crawl into Nerissa’s ear, and enter her brain. Once in the brain, Contessa would rearrange all the new information that Nerissa had gathered during the previous day.
This was a necessary thing for Contessa to do, because Nerissa was forever planning to air the pillow in the sunshine the next day. Nothing would kill a worm off quicker than warm sunlight. Hence, for Contessa, deleting data related to the airing of the pillow was paramount. It was self-preservation.
Over the years, Contessa grew longer. Now, when she entered Nerissa’s brain, Contessa’s tail hung several inches out of Nerissa’s ear. These days, there seemed so much more information in Nerissa’s brain to process. Some nights, Contessa never finished sorting and deleting. And then the inevitable happened…
In her sleep, Nerissa scratched her ear, and in doing so, Contessa split in half. For a while the dislocated bottom half wiggled away, but Contessa’s top half panicked and scrambled back to the safety of the pillow.
Because the job of sorting was unfinished, Nerissa remembered the next day to air the pillow. Contessa’s top half died in the warmth of the sun.
It didn’t matter though, for Contessa’s bottom half was safely hiding in Nerissa’s other pillow. Her life’s work would begin the following night.
Gross!
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I know… it was part of a trilogy of horrible things, but I had to move it from its original date to make room for a story for the 100th anniversary of WW1 (WW1 being even more gross)!
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Aah, how sweet, I never thought I’d feel so sympathetic towards an ear-burrowing worm.
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You are soooo soft-hearted, Andrea.
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It’s your fault for creating a worm that was such a sweet character!
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Aaaand, my pillow gets aired today.
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Can you send us some of you sunshine?
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Oh Bruce. You exceed yourself!
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LOL!!!!! 😀 😀 Thank you!
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Part science fiction, part horror, it’s a thriller through and through. I am all for the sequel!
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Like many a sequel, it will flop. There’s only so much one can do with a worm!
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I can imagine you laughing like an irresponsible foetus.
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!! As long as I didn’t suck my thumb.
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The most horrible story I have ever read on this blog! A bottom on a mission! What could be worse?
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True – it is horrid – but we try to cater for all sorts!
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Fair enough. It is just that I can not get the wiggling bottom out of my head now!
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