Joe chose to write a story from this sentence “I hate the Fucking snow!!!”
Are you sure you want to go out and get pizza tonight hun? It’s getting pretty dark out, and my phone’s telling me it’s going to snow later on tonight. I mean I guess we don’t have to, I just thought it sounded pretty good. I thought we could pick some up, and have a nice movie night to kick off the long weekend. Plus you know, isn’t pizza supposed to be your favorite food of all time? She said with her mischievous little smile. The man smiled back, I’ll tell you ma’am you drive a hard bargain, that or I’m just a sucker for pizza. You go ahead and call in the order, I’ll go get the truck warmed up.
It was only 5pm, but as for most days in the winter months of Kansas there seemed to be a constant overcast stormy grey sky. Every day seemed like the days became shorter and the nights got longer. The north winds sweeping down through the plains had brought winter’s eternal gloom. This night in particular seemed worse than normal. The windchill made 25 degrees feel like it was in the negatives.
Dang, I thought you said you were going to come warm the truck up! I’ve been sitting out here with the heater full blast, I had to switch it to defrost the windows.They just keep fogging up. We better get going before the weather starts getting too bad. You’ve gotta help me watch the road though, I hate driving in the dark.Yeah yeah, I know you hate driving in the dark. Unhook your phone’s Bluetooth. I want to play Spotify tonight.
“Rhiannon rings like a bell through the night..”
Hey look it’s starting to snow, looks like it’s coming down pretty hard. Should we turn back around? Turn back? Yeah before it starts to get bad? Why would we do that? You wanted pizza so bad, remember? We are almost there, like 25 more minutes maybe. Just keep your eyes out for me, it’s pretty dark now. I’m starting to have trouble seeing.
Twilight began to fade and darkness set in. The man could feel the wind pushing the car around. Vague outlines of occasional trees here or maybe a house there could be seen with the high beams from the car. The roads were getting slick from the snow.
Damn I feel like we’ve been driving forever. Did we miss the turn off to Lacygne? I don’t think so. I haven’t seen the power plant yet. I guess you’re right I just…wait, slow down what is that.
The figure was hard to make out in the dark; the jutting antlers were the only thing semi recognizable.The storm seemed to swirl around the beast, distorting the proportions. However it’s overall shape from what they could tell wasn’t that of any Cervid known to be in Kansas. Or for that matter anything known to exist.
As the car slowed to a crawl the figure lingered in the road twisting its neck in incomprehensible ways. The neck bulging to the right but the skull twisting to look at them from the left. Then in an instant it was gone. The freakish creature lumbered off into the snow into an embankment on the road.
To say that the man and woman were scared would be putting it lightly. They were terrified of the creature. Sure in passing it could pass as a deer, but once they were close to it they obviously could tell it was something else entirely.
“You could be my Silver Springs….blue green colors flashing'”
They continued to drive in silence, until they reached the pizza parlor. The woman went in to get the food while the man stayed in the car. Her phone disconnected from the radio, so he sat in silence. It was quiet out, it was a small town of maybe 700 people so naturally there wasn’t a lot of noise. However the man couldn’t help but hear it. It sounded far away but close at the same time. An unnatural guttural scream not like a wolf, and surely not a coyote. More closely in tune to a Bugling bull elk.
The car door opened and the smell of pizza filled his senses, making him forget the whole thing. That smells good, what kind did you order? Meat lovers with Alpine bread sticks. Let’s get this bad boy home and lock the doors. Whatever that thing was back there gave me the creeps. Pssh that thing, it was probably just a big deer, you know they can get that wasting disease where they act and look weird. It was probably just that. The man said trying to keep the appearance of not being terrified plastered all over his face. Well even then I don’t want to see it again let’s get going.
“She broke down and let me in….. never going back again”
It was snowing harder now, driving now turned more into a slow plodding, even on the highway. For the most part the trip back was quiet and uneventful. Until it happened. Deer are dumb animals, they jump out and just stare at you. It all happened in a flash, the slick roads were too much for the truck to stop. It’s like the thing jumped straight into the car, with no time to react.
The truck was pretty messed up. The entire front end was crushed and the right tire was destroyed. The windshield was cracked but not busted. The man smacked his face on the steering wheel. He could already feel the warm liquid on his face and slowly he tasted the iron in his throat. He looked up in a daze for a moment. Oh my god babe are you ok, your face it’s all bloo… He cut her off before she could finish. BLOODY YEAH NO SHIT, I JUST SMACKED MY FACE INTO THE STEERING WHEEL!! DIDNT I TELL YOU TO HELP ME WATCH FOR FUCKING DEER!? I’m sorry I didn’t see it, it jumped out and it was too hard to see with the snow coming down.
GOD DAMN IT!!! I HATE THE FUCKING SNOW!!! The man yelled, his face turning bright red. I can’t see for shit when it’s dark, and on top of that, the fucking snow makes it nearly impossible to fucking see. No no no no this isn’t snow it’s a fucking blizzard. I fucking told you we should have stayed home, I fucking knew it. I never go with my gut feeling, I always try to make you feel happy, always about you!
The Woman waited a moment before speaking, and in a scornful and mocking manner told the man; well if you would have just gotten new glasses like I’ve been telling you, this wouldn’t have happened.
The Man’s face twisted in disgust, the drying blood left crusty red stains all over the man’s nose and chin. Don’t even give me that shit my glasses are fine they are just a little scratched up, this would not have happened if we had just stayed home and ate the food we had at home. But we can’t ever do that god forbid, it’s too damn easy to do that. We need to drive 45 goddamn minutes to go get some shitty pizza 35 miles away!
Look, don’t blame me, you know how to cook. You could have cooked at home if you wanted. I didn’t ask you to drive out here so we could hit that deer. I’m just as upset as you. So could you please stop yelling at me! It’s cold, I’m hungry, and now frankly I’m scared we won’t get back to the house tonight. We are 50 miles away from any major city and with the snow there’s no way tow trucks are coming all the way out here right now. On top of that, there’s some creepy ass looking diseased deer wandering around this area. I don’t really need you to scream and blame me for something out of my control!
Well who’s bright idea was it, to move all the way out here again? Oh right you just like it was your idea to go get pizza.
COULD YOU JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP! She screamed. He could see tears begin to well up in her green eyes. You know why I wanted to move I…I..I..just can’t take things up in the city anymore ever since… he cut her off before she could continue. I know, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it like that I’m just mad at myself for hitting the fucking deer. I shouldn’t take it out on you, these last few months have just been hard. Especially with the… he stopped. Did you hear that? What? She said in an exacerbated tone. You don’t hear that it sounds like something is screaming out there.
They both stopped to listen. I don’t hear anything, stop trying to fuck with me. The tears were black little rivers sliding down her cheeks now. I just wanted to get pizza and have a nice relaxing weekend, things have been so stressful lately and with everything that happened…. I just miss her, you know.
If there had been any control before there was none now. Her green eyes were bloodshot, and the snot and tears ran freely. It’s just one fucking thing after another and now we got this shit to deal with. I just can’t take it anymore. The man tried his best to hug and comfort her. The car made it awkward and both of them looked like hell. His face was swollen and covered in varying stages of drying scabby blood. Hers puffy, wet, and red from the crying.
As they sit in their awkward embrace, they hear it. The scream, the cry, the howl, whatever in god’s green earth it was.
The snow starts to slow, and the one headlight not totally destroyed by the crash begins to unveil what lays ahead. The beast. The unnatural form of this creature was revealed more to them than before. The head of a sickly almost rotting deer, sat on shoulders broad and built like that of a man’s. Arms as long as the front legs of a deer but with hands and claws splayed flat on the ground. It’s rear end mimicked that of a more natural deer, however the hip joint gave it the appearance of being bipedal.
The couple screamed as the creature looked in at them. This had to be a dream the woman thought. This was just another one of her mental breaks, and she was going to wake up in the hospital again. When suddenly it moved. The back legs jerked forward while the arms bent and splayed onto the ground. As the beast drew nearer they could see the milky whites of its eyes. About that time the smell began to penetrate their nostrils. Rot and decay were this creature’s scent, fitting for a being so unnatura.
Inch by inch the creature creeped towards the truck. The couple paralyzed with fear couldn’t move, nor could they think what to do. Such a depraved looking creature would shatter most minds that gazed upon it.
The beast began to rise on its hind legs, it’s knees bending like that of a man’s but with rigid movements. It’s stomach began to bulge out, showing tears and holes where pieces of intestines would hang out. It spat out a shrieking bugling noise from it’s lungs. Loud enough that both the man and woman had to cover their ears.
Then the beast picked its prey. The deer. Slowly it lifted the dead deer from the hood of the car and investigated it. Turning it back and forth to see no chunks were missing from it. Once it was satisfied, like before the beast sauntered off only this time dragging it’s prey along with it.
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