Monsters
By David Beers ©2015
They exist.
Before we move
forward with this little essay, I want that to be known up front. Monsters are
as real as you and I. I’m not talking about magic and I’m not talking about
ghosts.
I’m talking
about the things that eat you alive. The creatures that will rip you apart,
pulling your flesh off your bones while you’re alive and screaming; the
monsters that will tie your family up and make them watch as it takes pieces of
you that you didn’t even know existed.
How many movies
have you seen where these monsters show up? Sometimes they’re chainsaw wielding
freaks. Sometimes they’re hitchhikers with a thumb out. The underlying
similarity, no matter where the monster arrives, is that those about to be
harmed don’t see it coming. They’re always riding along, happy enough, thinking
about the future ahead of them.
I imagine those
poor people are avoiding much of the past, because who likes dwelling there?
And somehow, a
monster shows up. And outside of a few blonde virgins who somehow make it out
alive, the monster takes everything it can from the group.
You don’t see
the monster coming, and by the time it’s there, not much can be done. When
you’re tied up, with only the sweat dripping from your brow to quench the
desperate thirst your throat is clamoring about, what can you do? When you
watch your lover slit from her groin to her sternum, her intestines falling out
on the floor beneath, what can you possibly say that’s going to get you out of
those tight ropes wrapped around your wrists and ankles?
I’m sure you’ll
plead.
I’m sure you’ll
beg.
Because you
didn’t think monsters existed. Even after reading this, you’ll go forward
imagining that I’m just a fairly fucked up author, and you’ll never be cruising
down a road with the wind blowing around you and your friends, music blaring,
and suddenly find the monster that will end your life.
Why should you?
That stuff only happens in movies and books, most of which aren’t very good.
But, I’ll tell
you once more.
Monsters are real.
And there’s a
good chance one is waiting on you. It’s already on the road, and it knows
you’re coming. It’s known you’d be coming for quite a while, and it took its
time making its way to the side of that lonesome road, because these things are
fate. You can’t avoid the monster; it was born long ago—and I believe each
monster was born specifically for the person it ends up ripping apart.
Now, don’t
worry. That’s the last thing I want you to do. Because, in all honesty, there’s
nothing you can do. Not now, and not when it’s nibbling on your cheeks, blood
dripping down your neck in warm, sticky strands. Just know that it’s coming,
but worrying will get you nowhere.
I don’t know
which monster is waiting, though I wish I did. I’d tell you, honest. I want you
to know as much about these things as possible, because education is going to
be a much better defense than knives or guns. Trust me.
There isn’t a
lot a gun can do against heroin, besides open up a hole in your own head.
There isn’t a
lot a knife can do against alcohol.
There isn’t a
lot that violence, in any form, can do against addiction.
Monsters are
real, dear reader; we see them all around us, and have already watched those we
love be devoured alive. We just call them different names and sweep them under
the rug so that no one need face them. We call them alcoholism, and sex
addiction, and gambling addiction, and on and on and on. It doesn’t matter what
we name the monsters, only that they’re real, and if you haven’t been really
careful throughout your life…
One is probably
waiting for you.
But don’t worry,
there’s nothing you can do.
David Beers
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AUTHOR BIO
David Beers writes
thriller novels in Orlando, Florida. When not writing, he obsesses over stories
in the news about unexplained deaths and paranormal happenings to the point
that his friends and family wonder if he should see a psychiatrist.
Before publishing
novels, David received awards for his short fiction seen in numerous
publications, including the New York Times mentioned Every Day Fiction.
David scribbles
weekly on topics from crime to horror movies at his website,
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THE DEVIL’S DREAM
He'll raise the dead, at all costs...
Perhaps the smartest man to ever live, Matthew Brand
changed the world by twenty-five years old. In his mid-thirties, he still
shaped the world as he wanted, until a few cops gunned down his son on the
street.
Brand's life changed then. He forgot about bettering
Earth and started trying to resurrect his son.
Eventually, Brand's mind even overpowered death's
mysteries; he discovered how to bring back the dead--he only needed living
bodies to make his son's life possible again. Why not use the bodies of those
who killed his son?
In the largest manhunt the FBI's ever experienced, how do
they stop a man who can calculate all the odds and stack them in his favor?
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