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Henry Smith awoke shivering in a cage to Mozart’s Serenade No. 13 in G major with the metallic taste of blood filling his mouth and the dream-image of a girl he had never met fading from his memory. Henry’s eyes fluttered. Disoriented, he squinted in to the gloom. He couldn’t make out a thing. At first, he did not know where he was or why.

He stood up and realized the cage was suspended by a thick, rusting chain over a cavernous concrete room. The air felt oily. He inhaled a sickly brew of aromas, an admixture of pickled meat and jasmine and ammonia that congealed in to an unnatural odor. He glanced down and noticed a dark ring staining a makeshift drain drilled in to the cage floor.

Henry pressed his face against the bars. He traced the outline of a vaulted door at the far end of the room. Behind it he heard peculiar noises beneath the Mozart. It was a dissonant cacophony: The chugging of a gas powered generator. Steel whetted against steel. Human squeals. Laughter, black and jubilant.

He slumped against the bars and slid limply to the floor. The movement caused the cage to gently sway. The chain creaked. He closed his eyes.

“Aw man,” he said to himself. “Not again.”

Date Written: March 26, 2004
Author: scoop
Average Vote: 4

Comments:
03/31/2004 Mr. Pony (5): That's one lush setup. The punchline is dumb without being stupid. Good job.
03/31/2004 Benny Maniacs (3): You're messing with some serious shit when you start it off with Mozart [Bad Mozart].
03/31/2004 qualcomm (4):
03/31/2004 mr.coffee (3):
03/31/2004 mr.coffee: Shit, meant to give it 5 stars and the comp fucked up! Good descriptions. Maybe we can get a part 2. Its a great set up that leaves me wanting more.
03/31/2004 Moe-Ron (5): I loved this.
03/31/2004 Jimson S. Sorghum (4): I really don't like this very much, but I'm giving it four stars. Right, The Lerpa? Right?
04/1/2004 qualcomm: yeah, sure, i guess
01/11/2005 John Slocum (3): Great set-up, whack pay-off.
01/11/2005 Litcube (5):
01/11/2005 qualcomm: hey slocum, stop getting it backwards, you fucking douchetard. stop liking painstaking descriptions.
01/11/2005 John Slocum: Qualcomm's a twerp!
01/11/2005 Dylan Danko: Fucking admixture! What a douche.