HelloAndAStory.....MyLovely(FTDParish)

I'm now able to access The Oven directly rather than submitting my stories to Finn, then he posting them. So to begin with I'd like to tell you that there is more "As Yet Untitled" coming, but right now I'd like to share a short story with you. Then, later, I'll finish chapter 2 and get it out....or I'll share another story then I'll get back to chapter 2. That's one of the attractions of producing work in this format. No money fer sure, but no restraints either. So here we go........
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My lovely new bride lay in our bed. Her hair spread out around her like a halo.....as if she were underwater, with her hair floating, framing her lovely face, her fine bone structure and soft features, a timeless beauty that glowed through her flawless skin, radient even in sleep. And God help you if she turned her smiling, sparkling eyes on you when she was awake. You'd do anything to make her look at you like that again.......anything.

The soft warm light creeping into the bedroom from the nightlight behind me she insisted we keep on in the bathroom so she wouldn't stub her toes stumbling sleepily to pee in the middle of the night. Or so she said, I just think she's afraid of the dark.

She's beautiful beyond measure, she's also strong, intelligent, funny, quick to anger at injustice and impossible to restrain once she got her teeth into something. I lay down beside her wondering what I'd done or was supposed to do, that God deemed me worthy of a woman such as she.

Waiting for sleep to come for me again.....wishing again that she didn't need that damned nightlight. I'm a very light sleeper and even that insignificant light caused me some sleeplessness on occasion. As I waited for blissful oblivion, hopefully til morning, big meeting tomorrow, early, so I needed my beauty sleep, I imagined our future together, my lovely and me.

We'd live life to the fullest, taking the days and nights aggresively. Living, loving. Then when we were ready, we'd leave the city and get a house in the country. Maybe start a little business, write, dabble in the market....whatever, and start a family. My lovely wanted a big family, so a houseful of kids she'd have. We were still young, we both made really good money, so within a coupla years, we'd be ab....
What's that? I swipe behind my ear. Feels like a bug......There again, on my cheek. I feel it with my fingers on that swipe. Now more.

Lotsa little legs running all over my feet, legs, arms, hands....face. I reach for the light and feel some fall down the back of my T-shirt. Crawling over my legs and up my basketball shorts. I finally get to the light switch. I want to scream, to wake my lovely wife, knowing she'll freak. Oh how she'll scream. It'll break my heart. My throat however is closed, choked with fear.

I turn the switch, first click 40 watts, spiders everywhere on the floor and nightstand. Second click 60 watts, I turn toward my lovely, spiders all over the bed, swarming over the comforter she picked out, she has really great taste. Third click 100 watts, I see her now.

My lovely. Sitting up in bed, the comforter around her waist, her hair undulating as spiders scurry underneath. I look into her eyes. They're black....all black, and shiny. Her mouth opens and spiders fall out, down her chest, some clinging to the silk nightgown covering her perfect breasts. Her head turns slowly towards me. It keeps turning until it rips and tipping backward, tumbles down her chest, in and out of her lap and off the bed and onto the floor. It rolls out of my view as the spiders continue to spew from the ragged stump where her head use to be. It's not as wet as I imagined it would be be.......

The room darkens and tilts. I realize I'm passing out. I feel the spiders crawling over me........into me, as the darkness overcomes me, "My lovely."