What Lurks Between - A SciFi Horror Novella - Part Eight

Because I love you and want you to be happy, I’m posting another portion of Barry’s story today instead of waiting until tomorrow. That’s because this section is very short also, while the next is more substantial in length.

(That’s what she said, right? :P )

LOL

Anyway, here’s the next installment of the story.

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What Lurks Between - Part Eight

By the end of the week, I began to notice a change. The bunny monster was larger.

But not all over.

Its claws had definitely grown - I had felt them too many times to not notice that. As had its fangs. The rest of its body, however, remained the same size it always had been.

Except for its belly.

At first I thought I was imagining things. It moved more slowly around my apartment, and when we went out and it pounced on a victim. But it was always a small enough difference that I could not be sure.

Then, one night, a week and a half after we first met, the bunny monster almost missed a meal. The poor schlub it picked out ducked its initial attack and ran away, screaming. For a moment, I thought he would actually get away, as difficult as the chase appeared to be for the monster. But finally, get him it did.

When it forced me back home, I looked at it - really looked - for a long time. There could be no doubt, now that I concentrated enough to really note the differences.

Its belly was most definitely larger. At one point, I swore I saw part of its belly move, even. I shrank back, swallowing hard. I thought I was past terror after the last week being held prisoner by that thing, but I felt a new, icy feeling of dread in my gut as I considered what I saw.

The bunny monster turned its head toward me right then. Its catlike eyes narrowed, seemed to grow more brightly red for a moment. Then it ran its little tongue over its lips and sniffed the air.

Soon.

The intruding thought echoed in my mind, its intensity making me rock back for a moment. The thought contained a deep, grim satisfaction, coupled with a primal eagerness that was barely contained. Were I that eager for something, I would be bouncing off the walls, but the bunny monster simply sat there, gazing at me with its unsettling eyes for a moment.

Then it smiled.

They will come soon.

That dread became sheer horror as I suddenly understood.

The creature was female.

*****

Previous Posts:

1. Part One
2. Part Two
3. Part Three
4. Part Four
5. Part Five
6. Part Six
7. Part Seven

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