(’Mad Mike’ by LewSethics)

Werethought

I caught some movement out of the corner of my eye and I turned my head and then I caught some movement out of the corner of my eye.

Damn, I said to myself, that Werethought is stalking me again.

I experienced fear.  Sudden and merciless, I feared the space anywhere I couldn’t see, the space where the Werethought snuck around, like an infection. 

I spun around as quickly as I could but there was nothing there but the afterimage of malice, a dismal smile in the air, a memory of sinister laughter.

It was behind me again, no, it was almost on me!  I spun around again but the fear kept me looking anywhere but where the damn thing could be seen.  To see it would be to go mad instantly and horribly; the Werethought a distilled essence of my own subconscious inhumanity, a memory of my animal mind, my lizard brain, my shark self, my chordate fear, my worm turns, my algae darkness, my molecular sum, my atomic valence, my quantum uncertainty.

The two antennae protruding from the rear of a cockroach are sensors that override the cockroach brain and initiate the flee response when the sensors sense stimuli associated with danger.  The cockroach could be eating something and suddenly find itself running like hell, because the response is automatic.

The Werethought is like cockroach sensors attached to the far back of the mind.  The fear it produces is the accumulated flight response of five billion years of evolution flowing through my veins like fractal rivers Styx, circling my mind nine times.

I must find the shore and crawl my way back to myself, before my mind runs away from the movement out of the corner of my eye where I turn my head and catch some movement out of the corner of my eye.

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