Graced

   Grace stepped outside of her friend’s house into the summer night. She was staying with her friend for the night. The back light turned on as the mid-twenties blonde stood on the back patio. She was feeling pretty buzzed from the beers she had drunk and she wanted to make some phone calls. She paced, stumbling on occasion, during her “drunk dials.” The young woman wore glasses, a blue top, black blazer, black knee-length black skirt, blue tights and black slip-on shoes. 

Something was approaching the patio though. A massive snake was slithering along lawns seeking heat in the cooling summer night. It sensed the heat from the concrete of the patio on which Grace was standing. She was oblivious to the nearing monster as she left rambling, slurred messages.   

She hung up her phone for the last time and as she did it slipped from her grasp and fell to the concrete. She leaned down to pick it back up, but lost her balance and fell. She caught herself with her hands just in time to avoid her pretty face smashing into the concrete. Her glasses had slid off though. She giggled as she looked up and squinted to find her glasses. She slid her glasses on and looked up again. She saw a monstrous snake slithering towards her and did a double to take to realize it was real. Fear gripped her and she found a scream was stifled in her throat. As a last defense she put her hand out, but with two quick gulps the snake swallowed up her arms and head.

She froze in panic for a moment and then began to writhe and twist trying to get herself free from the beast that was swallowing her. Once she started screaming it was entirely muffled to the outside world by the snake. She fought as best as she could, but the snake was too strong and was swallowing her. Her chest disappeared into the snake, then her stomach. 

Her legs in blue tights kicked frantically. Her shoes scrapped desperately against the patio. Her skirt rode up to expose her panties beneath her semi-sheer blue tights. She screamed desperately inside the snake and fought with all her might, but she couldn’t stop the massive snake from pulling her deeper into its body. She relaxed momentarily and whimpered into the monster as the beast had nearly swallowed her knees. 

She mustered all her strength and adrenaline and put up one last struggle. She kicked as hard as she could with her right leg and her shoe flew off her foot into a neighbor’s yard. However the snake hardly noticed her fight and her knees were trapped in its mouth before she could do anymore kicking. She tried to twist and fight inside the snake, but it was useless. She wiggled her feet and toes frantically as more and more of her cute legs in tights disappeared into the snake.

Grace’s feet, only clad in her tights and the other still in her black shoe, disappeared into the snake. The beast slowly started to slither off the patio and back into the darkness of the night. 

“Grace,” her friend called out the window, “you doing alright out there? Come inside and we’ll change into PJs.” 

There was no answer of course. Within a minute, her friend had opened her back door and poked her head out just as the snake was no longer visible in the darkness. 

“Grace?” she said with a slight tremble of concern, “It’s not funny to hide. You’d better come back in now or I won’t make you anymore drinks.” 

She stepped out onto the patio, found Grace’s phone broken on the ground and was gripped with panic. She sprinted back into the house to call the police

Meanwhile, Michael was staring out his bedroom window having just witnessed a third woman being consumed by a snake. He again had enjoyed the sight immensely this time in the dull light of a porch light. Once his neighbor had disappeared back into her house, he nearly sprinted into his back yard and grabbed the right shoe that had flown into his yard to add to his collection and got back into his house quickly. 

A few minutes later, the woman came back out of the house and quickly walked around her house calling out her friend’s name. Shortly afterwards the police arrived. Again the police found themselves baffled and searched desperately for clues and the only man who knew the truth wasn’t going to tell them anything.