P/EEK of Horror

My partner and I needed to get in our neighbor’s house while they were out. We took a few things to eat and drink while we were there. We got in fairly easily, the door being unlocked. We set upon our task to gain the intel we needed right away.

One of the sons got up and went to the bathroom. He looked very sleepy and was wearing only briefs. His corpulent body was not a shock since we saw him all the time, though fully clothed. He left the house with his brother. I glanced in their bedroom, for I was so sleepy I thought I might nap. An antenna and part of a round abdomen were protruding from the coverlet. I popped the blanket back a bit, and a huge black, dirty bug was there. It had neither 3 segments nor 2, with fused head and thorax plus the bottom, as a spider’s, but exactly 1, sum total. It must’ve had at least 8 legs. It sprang at me but missed, landing on the floor.

I never quash a thing, as I respect their little rights to life, seeing as how they’re among us. But this entity looked evil, the personification of the devil, no less. Its face drew into a sneer as it looked at me pre-pounce, so I sought to smash it with a magazine in hand. I came close, but it had vanished!

I looked at the other bed and saw it or, more likely, another of them. I was out of there!