THE BEAST FROM THE SIDESHOW Chapters 12 and 13

THE BEAST FROM THE SIDESHOW

Copyright 2012 by Teel

This is a rough draft of a novel in progress.

Please do not re post or re print without permission.

                           -12-

Gloria was lying nude on the bed. She was half drunk and ready.

Larry quickly pulled off his underwear and climbed on top of her. He started to kiss her.

He had been thinking about doing this for the last three day while he was out of town on business.

Larry was just about to enter when their daughter Pan screamed.

Within 3 seconds Pan ran into the bedroom.

“Mom! Dad! There's a monster in the alley!”

They quickly threw the bed sheet over their selves.

Pan ran over to her mother's side of the bed.

“Mom I saw a monster! Really it's in the alley!”

“Calm down sweetheart. You had a dream.”

“Yeah go back to bed. You're ten you're acting like a baby.” Larry was a little annoyed that their daughter interrupted things.

“I really saw it. It's real.” She sobbed.

“It alright honey.” Said Gloria. “You can stay with mommy and daddy tonight and you'll feel better tomorrow. Come on you can lie down next to me.”

Pan climbed into bed next to her mother.

Larry rolled over to his side facing away from his wife and daughter and pretended to go to sleep. He was to annoyed to talk to them right now.

He would feel better in the morning after their daughter went off to have a bowl of cereal for breakfast and left them alone for awhile.

In an alley way a block over the creature was hiding behind a trash bin. The screams of the little girl scared it and it wanted to hide for awhile.

-13-

It was Monday morning and Fred and Alan were driving to the supermarket. There was a special on hot dogs and can goods. They needed to stock up for the week.

On the way to the store they were driving pass the strip mall when the carnival was.

Everyone with the carnival was gone expect for Kaligari. His truck was still there. Kaligari was sitting on the wood steps that led to the back of his truck.

“Look. Kaligari is still there.” Alan pointed out to Fred was not interested in the least. “He looks upset.”

“He must of just realized that he could have made more money in the carnival business selling deep fried candy bars.”

“I'm going to see what's up with him.”

“No. I don't want to talk to him I think he's crazy.”

“You don't have to talk to him.”

Alan drove his pick up into the parking lot of the strip mall. He drove up to Kaligari's truck.

“I'll be right back. I'll just talk to him a minute.” Said Alan as he got out of the pick up.

Fred decided to get out too. He knew Alan's minute would become 15 minutes and he did not want to be sitting in the car waiting for him.

Kaligari was sitting on the wood steps leading to the back of his truck. He was sitting there looking sad and did not at first seem to noticed them. He then looked up as they got closer.

He stood up and talked to Alan with a tone of great pain in his voice.

“Someone has stolen him. I woke up this morning and it was gone.”

“Someone stole the alien?” Alan was amazed at the news.

“Yes he's gone.”

As Alan and Kaligari talked Fred walked up the steps and looked into the back of the truck.

“Did you call the police?”
Asked Alan.

“No I don't want to talk to the police. Every time I talk to the police it ends up bad.”

“Okay what's the scam?” Stated Fred to him.

“What scam?”

“There's only one set of foot prints back there and the door was busted from the inside...Are you trying to get on the news?”

“One foot prints? It would take two men to carry him out. He's heavy and I don't try to talk to the news people anymore they don't care about him.”

“The footprints in there are not from shoes. They're not human. Are you trying to fool people into thinking it came to life?”

“How could it come to life? He's dead. He's been dead since I found him. Why are you talking about?”

Kaligari was very upset at that point. Fred looked into his eyes and saw that he was talking to a man who really believed that the thing he had in the back of the truck was real and now he believed that the creature was gone.

“I'm sorry Mr. Kalgari. I misunderstood what was happening here.”

Fred now believed for sure that Kaligari was a mentally ill man.

Kaligari, Fred and Alan were sitting together at the taco joint at the strip mall.

They were sharing a large nachos that was on special and debating on who and why would anyone steal the alien.

“I have not idea who would steal it. It's not like there's a black market for that sort of thing.” Said Karigari.

“Maybe someone wanted to set up his own sideshow with it.” Suggested Alan to him.

Fred was convinced that Karigari was a mentally ill man. He believed that kaligar himself removed the thing from his truck. He decided to ask Kaligari some questions and see what he was thinking.

“Kaligari when I looked into your truck I noticed that the plastic sheet that covered the box the alien was in was pulled in instead of being pulled off.”

“What do you mean?”

“It looks like someone pulled the plastic in from inside the box. Also there was the one set of foot prints.”

“That makes no sense. It would take two guys to carry him away. He is heavy.”

“Yes. Well the foot prints did not seem to be that of a human being...Are you sure that thing was dead?” Fred looked closely at Kaligari to see his reaction to that.

“Of course it was dead. It was dead when I found it. It has never moved. It doesn't breath. It stinks like a pile of dead fish.”

“Could it have been in a coma.” Said Alan. “Maybe the cold put it in a coma and when the temperature dropped it awoke.”

“No I tell you that thing was dead.”

THE BEAST FROM THE SIDESHOW Chapters 10 and 11

THE BEAST FROM THE SIDESHOW.
Copyright 2012 by Teel
This is a rough draft of a nove in progress.
Please do not reprint or repost without permission.


                              -10-

Janet was surprised when her boyfriend Jack called her at 4 in the morning to give him a ride home.

She threw on some clothes quickly and got into her car to go pick him up.

Many times over the last two years that she knew him she told him to call her when he was drinking. She did not want him to be driving around drunk.

He always told her that no one needed to drive him after a night at the bars. That only drunks could not drive after drinking.

She always feared that someday she would have to go see him in the drunk tank or the morgue from drinking and driving.

She drove to Yellow Ave and found him sitting in his car which was parked by RED'S BAR AND BURGERS.

Jack got out of his car and got into her car.

“Thanks for picking me up Pet.”

He did not seem very drunk. She seen him drive home in much worst shape.

“It's okay. Anytime you need me.”

They drove away.

Janet could tell something was not right. He seem to be upset but was trying to hide it.

“I'm ...I'm giving drinking for awhile.” He stated.

“Why?” She asked. She really wanted to cheer. But she was wondering why he all of a sudden wanted to not drink.

“I'm starting to see things. I was driving along and I saw someone standing in the middle of the street.”

“What was he doing?”

“He...it was just standing there. It wasn't a man...It was a creature of some sort I saw. It couldn't have been real. It was some sort of a monster.”

“A monster? Really?” She was getting worried. He never talked like this before when he drank.

“As I drove up near it the thing ran away. It was a large green monster. It ran into the alley. After it ran away I parked the car and called you.”

“I'm glad you did.”

“I knew when I saw that I was too drunk to drive. I'm going to give up drinking for awhile.”

They drove home and went right to the bed room.

Before he fell asleep he asked Janet to not turn off the lights.

-11-

It stayed in the alley way for a long time. From time to time it would peek out for there to see if there was anymore of those weird things that it saw out there.

A little while earlier it had encountered a metal craft on wheels. It almost hit it. It saw some sort of creature into of the craft.

The creature looked around the dark alley that it was hiding in. It walked toward the other end of the alley to see if there was anything there that it should be aware of.

In the darkness the creature walked into some trashcans. The cans fell over and made a great deal of noise. Things fell out of the cans and the creature stood back. It did not know what to make of the cans or the things that had fell out.

The alley was filled with a dim light. They creature looked up and saw a window. The light was coming from that window. The small figure of a young girl open the window up and looked down into the alley at the creature.

She screamed in horror as the creature ran away down the alley leading to the next street over.

-12-

Gloria was lying nude on the bed. She was half drunk and ready.

Larry quickly pulled off his underwear and climbed on top of her. He started to kiss her.

He had been thinking about doing this for the last three day while he was out of town on business.

Larry was just about to enter when their daughter Pan screamed.

Within 3 seconds Pan ran into the bedroom.

“Mom! Dad! There's a monster in the alley!”

They quickly threw the bed sheet over their selves.

Pan ran over to her mother's side of the bed.

“Mom I saw a monster! Really it's in the alley!”

“Calm down sweetheart. You had a dream.”

“Yeah go back to bed. You're ten you're acting like a baby.” Larry was a little annoyed that their daughter interrupted things.

“I really saw it. It's real.” She sobbed.

“It alright honey.” Said Gloria. “You can stay with mommy and daddy tonight and you'll feel better tomorrow. Come on you can lie down next to me.”

Pan climbed into bed next to her mother.

Larry rolled over to his side facing away from his wife and daughter and pretended to go to sleep. He was to annoyed to talk to them right now.

He would feel better in the morning after their daughter went off to have a bowl of cereal for breakfast and left them alone for awhile.

In an alley way a block over the creature was hiding behind a trash bin. The screams of the little girl scared it and it wanted to hide for awhile.

THE BEAST FROM THE SIDESHOW Chapter 9

THE BEAST FROM THE SIDESHOW

Copyright 2012 By Teel

This is a roughdraft of a novel in progress.

Please do not reprint for repost without permission.

-9-

     It was very cold.

     And it was dark.

     For a long time all it could feel was the coldness.

     The darkness seem to last forever.

     It remembered talking to a holy person once when it was young and the holy person told him that if someone led a bad life that when it died it would go to a world of never ending darkness and cold.

     Did it lead such a bad life that it would end up in a place like that?

     It felt tired and sick. It's body felt numb. It tried to move it's arms and legs but at first they would not move.

Finally it was able after much effort to slowly move it's arms and legs.

     when it started to move it realized that it was in a pool of cold water.

     How did it end up there? Did the craft land in a ocean? Was it at the bottom of some alien ocean?

     It rocked it's body slowly to the left and to the rightIt stretched out it's arms and reached around it self.

     It was in a box of some sort.

     It reached upward over it self and felt a covering of some sort.

     It pushed it's hands upward and pushed though the plastic cover. It ripped the cover apart and placed it's hands on the upper edges of the box and slowly pulled it self up into a sitting position.

     It felt better sitting up. It could breath better. The air smelled a little strange to it.

     The room was lite by a dim light. It's eyes at first had trouble focusing. But as the eyes got use to the dim light it could see that it was in a box and was surrounded by the walls of a bigger box.

     Was it in a tomb of some sort. The holy person told him that when the end times come the dead would raise and be judge according to how they acted in life.

     It slowly crawled out of the box. It was in a great deal of pain. It did not want to move but it made it self move. It did not was to stay in the small box or the tomb like bigger box.

     It placed it's feet on the floor. It's feet hurt. It hung on to the small box for support and it got use to standing up again.

     Once it got use to standing it slowly moved it's legs and walked toward the walks of the room it found it self in.

It moved it's arms over the side of the walls. It was looking for a doorway or an opening of some sort.

Finally it found the handle to the back door of the truck.

It looked the handle over in the dim light and moved it around. The door was lock and would not open.

     The creature pushed it's body against the door. It pushed with all it's might.

     The pad lock snapped and the door flew open. The creature was unprepared for the doors swinging open and it fell down the stairs that led to the back of the truck.

     It a about five minutes the thing laid there in total pain. Every part of it hurt.

     The first rush of pain faded and it looked around it self.

     It was dark like in the back of the truck.

     But there was strange building with light shining out of them.

     The creature realized that it was not on it's home planet or a planet that it knew of.

     In spite of the pain the creature made it self stand up and it staggered away.

     It wanted to find some where to hide for awhile till it could figure out what was going on.

THE BEAST FROM THE SIDESHOW Chapters 7 & 8

THE BEAST FROM THE SIDESHOW

Copyright 2012 By Teel

This is a roughdraft of a novel in progress.

Please do not reprint or repost without premission.

-7-

     The next morning when Alan woke up he felt sick. This was no real surprise. He always felt sick the next morning after eating the meatballs Fred made. Alan always ate too much of them and regretted it later.

     He sat up and read from an novel he started the night before. He thought he might feel better after a little while.

Twenty minutes later he was still feeling a bit sick. He decided that maybe a walk in the morning air would make him feel better.

     He put on the clothes that he took off the night before and went out.

     Alan walked away from the apartment house and toward the strip mall where the carnival was located.

     Walking in the morning air made him feel better and he started thinking about the Mexican food joint that he had nachos at the day before.

     He thought he could buy a couple of large burritos. One for breakfast and one for lunch later in the day.

     As he walked into the parking lot of the strip mall he saw Kaligari at his truck. The hood was up and Kaligari was working on the motor.

     It was still about 20 minutes before the taco joint was to open. Alan decided to say hello to Kaligari.

             “Hello Mr. Kaligari. Are you having motor trouble?”

             “How's it going? I'm not having motor trouble. The cooler isn't working.”

            “Has the alien body thawed out?”

            “Oh no. I covered it with plenty of ice last night. A matter of fact I want to go over to the store and get some more ice to pour over it. Do you mind keeping an eye on the truck?”

            “Sure.” Stated Alan who wondered why anyone would trust a stranger to watch their stuff.

            “Great. Can I bring you back anything from the store?”

            “A snicker bar would be nice.”

            “Sure I'll bring you a king size one. What's your name? I forgot it.”

            “Alan.” He was sure he did not give him his name the day before.

            “Okay Alan I'll be right back.”

Kaligari open the cab of his truck and pulled out a red child's wagon. He walked away pulling it with him.

Kaligari left the hood up over the motor. Alan looked down upon the motor for a minute like he knew something about car motors. He use to do that with his friends back before he realized that he was never going to be the kind of guy he could fix his own car.

     Alan got his first computer when he was 15. He worked on it and decided if he needed a car fixed his father could do it for him.

     Alan walked around to the side of the truck. He looked at the sign painted on the side of the alien. Alan wondered if Kaligari painted the sign himself. He seem like the kind of guy who would do it himself.

     He wondered if Kaligari made that thing in the crate or if someone made it for him. If it was a man made item it was a great one.

     But a rubber or plastic thing would not have to be buried in ice.

     With the ice in mind Alan was now sure that the thing was some sort of an animal that was butchered and sewn together to look like some sort of an alien being from beyond Earth.

             “Here's your candy bar.”

Kaligari handed it to Alan as he walked up to the truck. He was pulling the red wagon he left with and there was three large bags of ice cubes piled on it.

             “Thanks.” Alan was hungry for something at that point. It was a king size candy bar.

             “Come up and see the alien Alan. If you go now you can beat the crowds.” He laughed at his own little joke.

     The back of the truck was not as cold as it was yesterday when Alan was there with Fred.

     Kaligari pulled back the plastic cover over the crate after removing the tacks that held it down over the crate.

The truck was filled with an odd smell. Kaligari who was use to it had no reaction but Alan was surprised by it. The alien thing had a fishy look about it but the smell was nothing like fish. Or in fact any animal that Alan could thing of.

     Kaligari poured the new ice cubes into the crate over the creature and the half melted ice that was already in there.

             “There you are Jackson. Do you feel better now?” Kaligari asked the thing in the crate. He seem ready to hear an answer.

             “Jackson? You call it Jackson?”

             “Yes. He reminds me of my great uncle Jackson. He was my father's uncle. He ran a hot dogs stand in San Francisco for 42 years. He grew to hate hot dogs. He wouldn't eat one to save his life.”

     Alan looked at the face of the alien thing. He could not see how that inhuman face could remind anyone of someone. He wanted to get a look at this great uncle of Kaligari.

            “Well I got to get going. Good luck fixing the problem with your cooler.”

            “Thank you. I'm not too worried about it. At the next town I know someone who could fix it pretty cheap. I'll just use ice till then.”

           “Good bye.” Said Alan as he left the back of the truck.

The smell of fresh air hit him as he walked back into the parking lot. The smell of the thing in the truck had given him a strange feeling.

    As Alan walked back toward the apartment he thought about how he wished he had said to Kaligari: Okay enough bullshit. How the hell did you make that thing? Is it animals sewn together or some rubber thing?

     When Alan was in his late teens he had wanted to make sci fi movies. He would have liked to have shot a movie using a creature like the one Kaligari had in the back of his truck.

-8-

      It was a slow day for Kaligari and his sideshow. Only about a dozen people came by to stare that the creature he had on display.

      At nine o'clock he put out the closed sign.

      He walked over to the crate.

               “Sorry Jackson. Not too many people this stop. But that's alright the next stop is going to be better. Lots of people are going to come and see you and know that there's people like you out there.”

     Kaligari felt a little sad. He wished there was a way to let more people know about his discovery.

     He tried calling TV news and the papers but no one came to see the creature.

     One guy from a local news station did a short interview with Kaligari laughed openly at him and kept asking him if people really believed he had a space alien in his truck.

He looked at the melting ice surrounding his creature. He decided that he should get some more to cover up the thing before he went to bed.

     Kaligari locked the doors of the truck and once again got his red wagon and walked toward the store a couple blocks over where he could get a few bags of ice.

     His plan was to get the ice and go to sleep. He was planning on pulling out early in the morning and driving down to the next stop of the rundown little carnival.

     About halfway to the store he spotted a small beer joint. Kaligari decided to stop here and have a beer and then go to the store.

     Three hours later Kaligari left the bar. He walked back to the carnival. He forgot his red wagon which he left in the bar and he forgot to get more ice.

     Once he got back to the carnival he got into his truck and pulled his blanket over himself and quickly fell asleep.