THE BEAST FROM THE SIDESHOW Chapters 15 and 16

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 permission.

-15-

Tom Cellar had been giving the weather reports on the local news for the last year and a half. From time to time they him a small story to do.

Never real news.

It was always some silly filler story like this one about the sighting of a monster on this end of town.

Cellar looked up at the sign painted on the side of the truck and wondered if he could beef up the story some how.

Kaligari walked up to Cellar. Fred was behind him but stood back as Kaligari walked up to him.

“Hello sir. I just saw you on the news. That's my truck.”

“Hello. I'm Tom Cellar. I was told you were showing the monster to people here not too long ago.”

“I wouldn't call it a monster. It was a creature I found. I found it at the wreckage of a spaceship. I have been showing...”

“Just a minute. I want to interview you for the news tonight. You wouldn't mind being interviewed would you Mr...?”

“Kaligari. Yes I would like to be interviewed. I tried to get the government to look at it and no one would believe I had found this creature...”

“Yes Mr. Kaligari. Let me help get the cameraman set up and I'm going to let you tell our viewers all about it.”

Alan joined Fred who was standing close by listening to Cellar and Kaligari.

“I got the nachos. What's up?”

“They're going to interview Kaligari. It's going to be on the news tonight.”

They watched as the cameraman set up a tripod and a camera.

-16-

The creature spent the day hidden behind the trash bin. The light of daylight hurt it's eyes and it's limbs were all sore.

As it laid there it felt sick.

All the strange sounds around it kept it from relaxing.

The cars driving pass just beyond the opening of the alley. The sounds of children playing in the part a half a block away. The voices of people yelling back and fore at each other. All those sounds made it jumpy. It wished that it was back home.

After a while it felt hungry.

The feeling of hunger echo through it' body and made it feel worst.

It could smell things in the trash bin it was hiding behind.

It slowly moved out from behind the bin and looked into it.

It opened up some of the plastic bags and sniff them. Some of the things smelled like food but not like food he ever ate.

The creature tasted some of the things in the bin and spit them back out. Finally it force it self to eat some of the things it found there.

After wards it laid back down behind the bin and felt sicker.

Bill Burton had everything all set up.

On the coffee table in front of him there was a big bowl of popcorn that he had just made.

On the floor at his feet was a big plastic pail of beer bottles and ice cubes.

He sat down on his favorite easy chair and picked up the remote control.

He was now ready. The sport channel was going to show 3 hours of Women's Beach Volleyball and he was going to sit there and watch all three hours of it.

He thought about having a jar nearby so he not have to go to the bathroom. He decided against that idea. That just seem too lazy.

This was just as Bill pictured retirement. He hoped to be spending his last days watch women in small two piece bathing suits playing volleyball on TV.

The game started and Bill watched the young players jump up and down playing with the ball for 26 seconds.

Then his wife run into the apartment screaming...

“Billy!Billy! There's a monster hiding in the alley! Get the gun! Shoot it!”

She was screaming in that high tone that made him feel like a nail was being hammered into his head.

“Stop screaming Helen you're giving me a headache.” He was still trying to watch the women playing on the TV set.

“But there's monster in the alley! I saw it when I took out the trash! It stood up and growled at me!”

Bill was only half listening to her. He would rather watch the game.

“Are you talking about that poor bum? I tell you that guy is harmless.” He was talking about a homeless man that somethings slept in the alley. His wife was afraid of him.

“Bill get the gun! I tell you it's a monster! A big green monster.”

He was not longer listening to her.

“Yeah yeah. After my show is over.” He said as he picked up a bottle of beer from the pail. He was hoping she would leave him alone till the show was over.

She marched loudly into the bedroom and slammed the door.

Good he thought. I can watch my show in peace now.

THE BEAST FROM THE SIDESHOW Chapter 14

THE BEAST FROM THE SIDESHOW.
Copyright 2012 By Teel.
This is a roughdraft of a novel in progress.
Please do not re post or re print without permission.

-14-

Behind the counter of the taco joint there was an old small television set. It was mounted on a wood shelf just above the large colorful menu food sold by the restaurant.

The TV was place there so the workers(Who were all cousins of the owner) could keep up with the latest sport events instead of calling in sick and staying home to watch them.

Right now the TV was showing the local news.

On the news a man who usually did the weather report was out live on location. He was at an apartment complex a couple a blocks away from the taco shop.

He was standing there talking to a couple of people while behind him in the background a bunch of dim wits were waving at the camera and making faces.

“So tell us about this monster you saw out...”

“Hey listen to what's on TV.” Said Alan to them. He pointed to the TV set behind the counter over the menu.

“...So I was walking my dog and I smelled something that made me feel kind of sick. My dog started barking and I saw this thing running away from the complex.”

“And what did this monster look like?” Asked the newsman.

“It was like a gorilla with green rubber skin...also it had large eyes.”

“And how about you young lady. Your mother said you saw something.”

“Yes...I look out my window because I heard a noise and I saw a big green monster. I was scared.”

“I bet you were young lady... and you sir. You said you saw something?”

“Yeah I did. I saw if for a few seconds when I was looking for a parking spot last night. Some jackass took my spot.”

“And you saw a creature that looked like the green creature they saw?”

“Yeah and I saw a creature like that before.”

“Really? When and where did you see that?”

“Just a couple of days ago. I took my niece to the carnival that was down the street and some guy was charging a dollar a piece to see this monster from space in a box in the back of his truck.”

The reporter was not quite sure if this man was pulling his leg.

“Monster from space?”

“Yeah. There was a sign on the side of the man's truck and it said it was from outer space. It sure was strange to see it walking around...”

The newsman got a signal from the camera man to sign off.

“Thank you sir for your story and now back to you Dave...”

The news was then replaced by a commercial for a pizza restaurant.

The three of them looked at each other at the table.

“Mr. Kaligari...Tell me the truth. Did you really find that thing in a wreck?”

“I swear I did...But it was dead... At least I thought it was dead.”

“Wow... I never thought I would meet an alien.” Said Alan. “Why do you thing it was just lying in there? You think it was faking. Playing dead?”

“I can't imagine why it would do that. I always treated it right even though I thought it was dead. I would wash the dust off of him and kept him cool so he would not rot.”

“Yes you always kept it cold. Maybe it was in a coma.” Said Fred. “The cold kept it in a death like state.”

“Yes you told me yesterday that the motor that kept the cooler going was not working.”

“I forgot.” Said Kaligari. “Last night I was going to get more ice but I got drunk instead. I forgot to get more ice...The ice in the box was all melted away this morning.”

Kaligari looked like he was going to be sick.

“All this time he was alive. I was pouring ice over him and keeping him from waking up... I didn't know he was alive... I would not have kept him from living.”

“Don't beat yourself up.” Said Fred. “How would you know? What would any of us know about creatures from outer space?”

For a while that sat there trying to decide what they should do next.

Kaligari found it hard to think because of the guilt he felt. He wished he had taken the alien to a doctor of some sort to check him out.

“Hey look.” Alan pointed out the window of the shop to the parking lot. A news van was driving up to Kaligari's truck.

The newsman they just saw on the TV got out of the van and walked up to the truck. He was looking at the sign on the side of the truck that told of the space alien inside.

“I guess I should talk to the news people.” Said Kaligari. He got up and went out to talk to them.

Fred fallowed him out.

Alan went to the counter and asked for a to go box so he could take the left over nachos with him.