Below World Message
- Landon Schwausch
- Aug 21, 2017
- 2 min read
Two minutes of darkness. It’s not a long time. We’ve been waiting for it for 38 years. We’re used to darkness on Earth, just not during the daytime.
However, there are things that thrive in daytime darkness. We’ve forgotten about them, but they’ve been waiting too. They wait as long as they need to, just for that brief time when everyone is looking up. When people lift their eyes to the sky as one, they slither from beneath the ground.
We can’t hear them or feel them. Not until it’s too late. By then, they’re already gone, taking some of us with them. Their feelers wrap around our legs and pull us down with them. Our bodies change, and become like them. We become part of them, and wait for the next eclipse to expand again.
And they don’t just take our bodies. They take our entire existence. All memory of us is wiped away. Nobody remembers that we were ever there, and all medical records, marriage licenses, and birth certificates vanish entirely.
How do I know this?
Because I was taken. 38 years ago I was with my parents watching the last eclipse. We went camping, got special glasses, the whole nine. Then totality happened, and we looked up. It was incredible. Then I noticed my parents getting taller, and I wasn’t completely standing anymore. It was like I was on my knees, but they didn’t feel like knees. Then the grass shot above my head, and I tried to cry out, but I no longer had a mouth.
The last thing my eyes saw was my parents looking at each other after the sun reappeared. Then it was blackness.
I managed to separate myself temporarily from the whole, but I don’t have much time before I’m re-assimilated. I’m sending you this message now to let you know that I’m still down there, along with millions more that have looked up over the millennia. This is your warning. Look up, but keep hold of each other.
If you’re out there still, I know you don’t remember me, but this is my last chance to say it. Mom, Dad, I lo
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