How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend – Linda Addison

((…)) Oh yeah, I was telling you when I first noticed I was changing. I woke up Saturday morning feeling exhausted. The room spun. Throbbing pain crept across my forehead. I looked down at my hands and saw lights. What — ? ((??)) Sparkling lights. Not fluorescent or 60 watt or halogen.

I’m talking about infinite points of brightness in the brown flesh of my hands. In and on them. If that wasn’t bad enough my nicely manicured fingernails were no longer painted Pleasingly Plum. They had become little oval windows to outer space. ((!!)) I know it sounds strange, but this is what happened. ((…)) Apology accepted. And lay off the fancy titles.

I’m not an official representative from Earth. Just call me Janet. Anyway, no matter which way I turned my fingers all I saw was endless velvet darkness filled with sparkling stars. ((??)) Yes, every single finger. I thought it was those funny lights you see when you close your eyes and press on your eyeballs.

((…)) Oh. I forgot you don’t have eyeballs. ((??)) Uh — yeah. I guess if I had anything like that and did that to them it might be the same. Then I looked down at my feet. They were transparent. ((??)) Like glass, but not shiny. I wiggled my toes.

They felt normal but I could see the wood floor through them. ((??)) I did what any normal human would do. I closed my eyes. That didn’t help because I could see through my eyelids. The lights in my fingers grew into swirling intricate designs up my wrists and around my arms.

That’s when I first heard you. ((??)) No. Nothing like now. There was a low rumbling sweet sound in my nose. The words were jumbled. I didn’t know then but it was the interlateral skiagramic time space continuum split that was distorting your words. ((??)) Just something I figured out later, or maybe I overheard you mention it. ((…)) Sure I sound calm now. Back then I decided that standing on my transparent feet and running through my apartment screaming would make me feel better.

Except I started to float. I tried to grab something but I couldn’t move my arms or legs. I thought for a moment I had died and this was an afterlife thing, but it didn’t look like anything I’d seen on television. Did I tell you that I lived in one of those factory buildings that had been converted into apartments?

((…)) Well, when I saw myself approaching the two-foot thick brick wall in my bedroom I knew it was all over. But instead of banging into the wall, my body bubbled through it. ((??)) I was more than surprised. I was shocked. When I came out of the wall I found I had shifted in my body.

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Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. The stories contained herein, including names, characters and places, are works of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead is entirely coincidental. OceanofPDF.com This collection is dedicated to Bob Booth, the Necon Gang and all my friends and family who have wrapped me in love…

OceanofPDF.com Copyright Acknowledgments “Night of the Living and Dead” copyright 1995 by Outer Darkness magazine, Fall Annual. “Little Red in the Hood” copyright 1995 by Tomorrow magazine. “Pullus Cogens” copyright 1997 by Tomorrow magazine. “Dust to Dust”, “One Night at Sheri-Too-Long’s Popcorn Bar”, “Just Passing Through”, “The Box”, “Animated Objects”, “Am I Repeating Myself?” copyright 1997 by Animated Objects (Space & Time). “Boo” copyright 1998 by Going Postal anthology (Space & Time).

“Land Sharks” copyright Sept 1998 by Asimov’s SF magazine. “Fire/Fight”, “Forever Dead”, “Bottling Up De Evil”, “Mourning Meal”, “Sharp, Shiny Hurting Things” copyright 2001 by Consumed, Reduced to Beautiful Grey Ashes (Space & Time). “Excerpts from The Unabridged Traveler’s Guide as UFOs in Galaxy A.G.2” copyright 2001 by Scars anthology. “Comic Cannibals” copyright 2001 by GSHW in A Fearful Way. “The Power” copyright 2004 Dark Dreams (Kensington Publishing Corp).

“Milez To Go” copyright 2006 by Voices From The Other Side, Dark Dreams II (Kensington Publishing Corp). OceanofPDF.com OceanofPDF.com Introduction I’ve always loved words. When I was in school and the teacher gave me a copy of my first book, “See Dick Run” kind of book. I remember holding it and knowing I wanted to make things like this without understanding what that meant. I did know it told a story and my mother was a wonderful storyteller who would make up tales, and include us children as characters.

I still love words. I’ve been known to take the titles of friends’ books and turn them into a poem. Some find it amusing and/or perplexing. I just like playing with words.

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.

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