Building Blocksby
PennyStreetComment by K3Master: He had a headache when he awoke that morning, and tried to tip himself out of bed to go to the medicine cabinet for some aspirin, but as he tried to move his legs out from under the covers, he found that the muscles that he had grown so used to using, simply weren't there anymore.
Instead, an alien feeling rushed through his brain, and spoke to him of many limbs that he hadn't had before. It was then that he began to panic, and by some instinct or sheer force of will and luck, did then manage to fling himself from the sheets, and he fell flat on the floor.
He struggled there for a time, those alien impulse and feelings fighting with his desire to work only two sets of arms and legs, the idea of his humanity that had been with him for 30 some years fighting with this sudden and growing realization that something was very, very wrong with that idea.
Again, through some instinct, he managed to stumble upright, and opened his eyes. What he saw choked a strangled gargle from his throat. He would have screamed, but it seemed he no longer had the mechanics for such a thing anymore. In place of his mouth, were a pair of giant pincers, and what his eyes showed him, was a view of outside, from his window, but it was scattered and shattered into a grid of images that overwhelmed him completely. His first thought was that he had gone insane, or this was some kind of hallucination, perhaps brought on by aneurism or some other brain malfunction, but no. As he stood there unblinkingly (he had tried to do that as well, but there was physical ability to do so), it suddenly dawned on him in a final and horrific realization.
He wasn't human anymore.
And as his pincers clenched and his multiple legs began to twitch as the muscles within finally bridged the gap between his old memories, and his new sense of being, and his eyes saw only a multitude of broken images, his human mind finally snapped completely and was lost.
Some time later, in the streets below, came the screams as the giant beetle emerged from the apartment block in search of food, and loosed upon the world a vision of a Kafka Nightmare.
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