Triumphant

I carried it within me, and I brought it to you.

You stare at me, a hurt and bewildered look upon your face.

I am the one lying on the ground, blood bubbling up between my cracked lips, yet I cannot help but laugh at your expression.

You asked me where it was, what we’d done with the chimera.

I said I didn’t know, but I should have said that I was uncertain as to where it was exactly. I didn’t know in which tissue it lurked, curled up in my innards, tearing off shreds of flesh to assuage its growing hunger. I just knew that with every breath, I wanted to scream. With each step, I prayed to die. But I had a job to do, so I stifled my anguish behind a mask and came to you as a Trojan horse in torment. The chimera—the hideous thing we’d wrought of pain and teeth and hate—was our present to you.

Waving my flag of peace, I got close to you, bearing my evil burden. We spoke. You told me your conditions for our surrender; they were requirements no human would ever force upon another. Total, abject control. The relinquishment of all weapons, even those for hunting. A tax that would have starved us and killed half our population. I nodded, smiled. Groveled. You relaxed enough to find me attractive, and ordered your guards away.

I complied readily, undressing to remove an inconvenient barrier to the chimera. And when you embraced me, I freed it, and it burst from my gut. A hideous thing with sharp fangs, and it leapt for you with welcoming arms spread wide, latching onto your taut stomach. You gasped, your legs and feet covered in my gushing blood, and staggered back, a monster biting into you.

I fell, my intestines spurting out of me like so many bloody ropes.

And now I watch as it burrows into you eagerly, gorging on your internal flesh after a long fasting, as your eyes roll back in your head with a world of pain.

Your mouth moves but makes no sound, and you fall backwards onto the bed, your image dim in my darkening vision.

I win.



--An old one, and a super morbid one, but I've always liked it because it turned out mostly the way I wanted