"A Monster Plant" Topic

""My right hand gripped the revolver so tightly that the steel pushed achingly into my flesh. Beyond the door was a thing of nightmare; of dreams, of madness. It sat upon the bowing wooden floor of the boarding house with its bulbous trunk throbbing and root like tendrils writhing across the bare planks. Taller than a man and topped with waving fronds which carried more the look of meat than of plant matter it had seen me kick open the peeling blue painted door. It had seen me with oil black eyes dotted around its upper body and now it undulated a nerve flaying call. Was it alone or were there more? The bile rose in my throat and I wanted to scream at the impossibility of it but I knew that if I began to scream I would never stop. I was a cop and there was a little girl missing somewhere in this misbegotten place. Taking aim I pulled the trigger again and again and it was that accursed flower of evils turn to scream."

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