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George M. Pinel                                       Back Home                                                   10-1-03

                                                            The Encounter
                                                        By: George M. Pinel

          �Click, click, click,� uttered the keyboard as Joe typed in his daily assignment for his job. Joe is an average person employed as an accountant, nothing special. However, there is something that Joe keeps hidden, his fear of the truth. Joe has always wondered if there was something out there past the reaches of humankind. Joe follows the average humdrum routine, go to work, eat dinner, and then go to sleep, but that�s all going to change.
      As I was saying, Joe was working on his assignments, until he received an advertisement that would change his life forever. The ad was from the website www.freedomofinfo.org, a site that gives evidence of alien encounters and related topics. Joe was about to rid himself of this ad until he heard a little voice inside him persuade Joe into giving the site a chance. Joe was fascinated of the overwhelming evidence proving alien existence and stayed on the website for hours. Joe viewed all the links and saw one that especially caught his eye.
      The link was entitled �A Wild Ride� and stated that you could buy a lifelike simulation of an alien encounter. The only catch was that it was $70 to buy one. Joe jokingly muttered to himself, �Got no money in these pockets,� as he emptied his pockets. Joe then scrolled down to a link entitled �A Real Encounter� and he read the description and it said that he could experience a real encounter for free. Joe excitedly clicked the link and it said, �35 minutes to activate.� Joe diligently waited for a half an hour, but surrendered to the sleep cycle.
      �What? Where am I? What happened, and why do I have this blistering headache?� Joe asked to himself as he opens his eyes to find a burnt environment, while he lay next to a blazing fire. Joe recalls his exciting adventure surfing the net for the truth and clicking the link to �A Real Encounter.� He remembers that on freedomofinfo.org it explained how the abducted experience a loss of time, waking up in a different environment, and that they will have dreams of their encounter in time.
       �What in the world?� Joe yells as he sees this huge metallic disk, partly buried in the ground, with acting as a firebrand. He sees three shadowy images depart from the craft and run off into human civilization. �A UFO,� Joe states in amazement and awe. �Oh, I know where I am, I�m in Roswell 1947, at the famous UFO crash site. Oh no, the aliens may be after me. I gotta run for my life!� Joe shrieked as he quivered in fear. He ran as far as he can and then stopped at a nearby house.
       �Excuse me ma�am, may I be a guest at your house tonight?� requested Joe.
       �Sure son, make yourself at home,� answered the young lady.
       �Why thank you,� Joe respectfully declared. Joe wasted no time on introducing himself. �Hi, I�m Joe,� he stated as he noticed there were 3 members in the family. There was a young male boy who introduced himself as Mark, a husband and wife who introduced themselves as Tom and Karen.
�Well, I don�t know about you, but I�m lying down.� Joe remarks as Karen points to the room in the attic.
Later that night, Mark is sleeping when he claims that he was attacked.
        �Mommy, mommy, there�s a monster in my room!� Mark chanted as he ran to his parent�s bedroom.
        �It�s okay dear, there�s no such thing as monsters,� Karen tells Mark calmly.
        �I�m going to get a glass of water,� Tom states as he walks into the kitchen. He turns the nozzle to the faucet and fills his cup. He sees a blur pass by the window next to him. Suddenly, a face appears at that window, the face is gray, has an enormous head and big black eyes. Tom�s cup plummets to the ground and smashes into tiny pieces. Tom begins to tremble in fear as the alien slowly turns the doorknob. The gray alien realizes the door is locked. He gradually breaks the locks of the door; Tom has a flashback of his entire life as the alien breaks the last lock.
          �Please don�t hurt me,� Tom pleads as the alien walks into the room. The alien grabs Tom by the neck and strangles him to death. The alien drags Tom out of the room, leaving a trail of blood. He burns the corpse to eradication, ensuring that there is no evidence. The alien reenters the house. He walks up to Karen�s bedroom. Mark and Karen begin to whimper in the corner of the room. As the alien approaches them, they begin begging for their lives. The alien first grabs Mark by the hair, then shoved his knee into Mark�s stomach. Mark plunges to the ground in pain while the alien squeezes Mark�s head. The bone supporting Mark�s head are crushed, but the alien feels no remorse. He begins to rip Mark�s skin open, and then he takes the brain right out of Mark�s head. The alien shoves Mark�s brain into Karen�s heart.
          �You unremorseful bastard, I�m going to kill you!� Karen shrieks to the alien. However, the alien senses Karen�s fear, and does to her what she did to Mark. The alien continues to check the house for any witnesses. He starts rampaging throughout the house, waking up Joe in the attic. Joe quickly hides under the bed, and the alien hears him. The alien goes up to the attic, the suspense builds as Joe hears his footsteps. Joe sees the shotgun hidden under the bed to stop burglars and intruders. The alien enters the attic; he can hear Joe breath hard. He looks under the bed, and Joe grabs the shotgun. He pulls the trigger right on the alien�s face. Alien guts and brain splatter all over the room, Joe begins to scream in triumph. Joe remains awake the entire night, incase the other gray aliens come for a visit.lse. When they checked his pulse there was no beat whatsoever. The general reaches into a pocket and pulls out a Liberty Standing Half-dollar. He flicks the half-dollar at Joe; it lands right on his face.
          �Never cross the military,� they say to Joe�s corpse. As they leave the room Joe regains consciousness.   He picks up the half-dollar and puts it into his pocket.
           �It�s a miracle I survived,� Joe utters to himself, as he licks his wounds. After an hour Joe is able to stand on his feet. He goes back up to the attic and begins to lie down. Before he knows it Joe is asleep.
           Around 12 o�clock that night a bright light approaches Joe. It is the other two aliens Joe saw leaving the craft. Joe manages to pick himself up, then runs like a little girl. He runs as fast as he can, but the aliens catch up. The one alien, slightly taller, tackles Joe from behind, the other kicks him. Joe notices the livewires cut off from Karen�s radio, he quickly comes up with an elaborate scheme. He inches himself toward the radio, but the aliens continue to hold him back. The aliens begin to drag Joe as far away from his destination as possible, as if they read his mind. Thinking quickly Joe kicks the aliens� hands and darts to the radio. The aliens attempt to stop him from reaching the radio, but Joe is too quick. Joe grabs the livewire and shoves it down the taller alien�s throat. The taller alien was electrocuted to death, and the other alien began to fear Joe. Joe kicks the alien in the ribs and the alien, grabs his chest. Joe quickly follows the kick up with a punch in the face. He rips the livewire out of the taller alien�s stomach and injects it into the smaller alien�s tiny mouth. That alien is also electrocuted to death.
         "Wha- what happened? The last thing I remember was electrocuting an alien to death and then I�m here.� Joe thought to himself. He looks up and he is still on freedomoftruth.org.
        �Oh, it was probably just a dream.� Joe assumes as he walks to his bedroom. He hears a slight jingle in his pocket, and when he looks in his pocket, there is a Liberty Standing Half-Dollar. Behind Joe is a broken wire.

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