• The Flower

    Once upon a time, there lived a large family in a village in Romania, Transylvania to be exact. This family was not a very happy one, as the father was a drunk who abused everyone else. The mother was notorious for constantly sleeping around, and each of the children had major defects as well. One of these children was named Lily, because of her unnatural love for flowers.
    Lily was quite different from the rest of the children. She preferred her own company, rather than spending time with her siblings. Because of this, her brothers and sisters were constantly teasing her. Lily was consistently plagued by her sibling threats and insults, and they would often send Lily away crying.
    One day as Lily was walking through the nearby forest, she became quite lost after venturing in too far. She wandered and wandered for many hours, before coming upon a very strange sight. She ended up in a beautiful garden, filled with all kinds of flowers. As Lily walked through the garden, she kept getting closer to it's center. Once at the center, Lily was surprised to find a large enclosed pagoda. Opening the door, Lily went inside. When she was inside, she saw an enormous flower of all different colors. It was amazingly beautiful, and as Lily walked up to it she heard a voice. The voice whispered to her, and asked if she would like a friend. Lily replied that she would very much. The voice told her to leave the garden and bring her older sister.
    Lily did as she was told, and brought the sister back to the flower. When her sister walked into the pagoda, the flower opened an enormous hole at it's center, and swallowed the sister up. Lily was not warded off by this display, but rather gleeful instead. She asked the flower if it would be her friend now, but the flower said Lily would still have to bring three more of her siblings. Lily did so, and the flower didn't swallow these, but instead melted them alive with acid and slurped them up.
    Lily went back and forth between the house and the garden, bringing more family each time. The flower ate some with sharp teeth, strangled them with vines, attacked them with bees, or burned them with pollen. Each time the flower ate a person, it would grow bigger. By the time Lily had brought her last family member, the flower had grown enormous, but somehow still fit in the pagoda.
    When th flower had finished with the family, it told Lily to go and kidnap all of the village's babies and young children. Lily did as she was commanded using special pollen that the flower had given her, and the flower ate all of them alive. The flower then demanded that Lily bring all of the rest of the villagers, family by family, house by house.
    Lily flitted through the village, using the mysterious pollen to gather up all of the villagers and bring them to their deaths at the hands of the flower. Once the village was entirely deserted, Lily again asked the flower if it would be her friend. The flower said that it would on one condition; Lily had to give herself to the flower. Lily, the poor naïve girl, did as she was commanded. The flower used it vines to pull her apart, limb by limb, and eat each one in front of her still living eyes. Finally the flower got bigger than ever, and closed up. Then the flower started to glow, and turned into a man with red skin, and two horns and a pointed tail. The man thanked Lily for all of her wonderful service, then opened his mouth up wide, and started to eat Lily.
    Today the village still stands, as deserted as the day Lily took her ill-fated trip to the magical garden. Some people say that you can still sometimes hear Lily's voice coming fro the forest as she plays with her one and only friend.
    And the tale ends their, my dear delightful children. The clock rings that the time of my services is up, and I must depart. But remember that their will always be a spot for each and every one of you here in front of my stage. Have a very merry night, my audience.


    I hope you make a new friend or two tomorrow.