Catesia (standard:horror, 1416 words)
Author: Lev821	Added: Apr 26 2007	Views/Reads: 3536/2335	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
What is it about the wasp that won't leave the bedsit? Bug spray won't touch this.

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basically, used it to download films and music illegally to burn onto 
discs. In Raymond's view, this was unacceptable, as it was theft, and 
had called the police, who had arrested him and gave him a £2000 fine 
which he refused to pay. He chose instead to take a six month prison 
sentence, and was locked away with dangerous members of society who had 
committed far worse crimes. One such criminal, who had received news of 
his girlfriend's liaison with another man, was in a foul mood, 
overheard Charlie's conversation with another convict, and thought they 
were talking about him. He attacked them both that night, stabbing and 
killing Charlie, and injuring the other man. Raymond had shed no tears. 
After approximately an hour, he was sitting on a bench in his nearby 
park, enjoying the solitude and atmosphere. It was a rare, small space 
of greenery with a path that bisected it diagonally and was twice the 
size of a football pitch, but was slowly being eaten into by the 
growing concrete jungle that surrounded it for miles on each side. 
Sometimes it became quite crowded, and the feeling of seclusion would 
vanish, but now it was fine. He was contemplating whether or not to 
stay, or go and find a quiet corner of a library somewhere and read a 
newspaper, when a sharp pain bolted through him from his stomach. 
Another came, then another, and Raymond fell forward from the bench 
onto the path. He tried to yell out but found he couldn't as the pain 
persisted. He felt liquid seep through his shirt and saw that it was 
blood. He rolled onto his back and clutched his stomach, but his hands 
went inside and felt movement, squirming. He managed to look up and see 
that there were many larvae, eating him. The wasp had laid its eggs 
inside him, as each of them, at around an inch long, had a small, human 
face, each that of his ex-friend, who upon crossing over to the other 
side when he died, found that reincarnation was real. He, however, 
discovered a way to choose what he came back as, and to where, as well 
as to alter the genetic make-up of the appearance, thus reminding 
Raymond of who was the conscious mind within the wasp. It meant also 
that reproduction was a lot quicker than normal, and those inside his 
stomach, all twenty four of them, began to emerge as a distorted 
version of the catesia wasp, the same as the one that had invaded 
Raymond's home. One of them bit into his heart, then, as if on cue, all 
stretched their wings and flew upwards, circling above him. Raymond saw 
them all watching him before he died. They then dispersed, flying away 
in all directions. 


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