A Putrid Horror

A young teenage girl sat alone in her room. Her anger overwhelmed her. She hated her life and her unfair parents. With every confrontation, she dug deeper into her disdain.

One day a zit formed on her back. It was just out of reach. She tried cleaning it with a washcloth and putting ointment on it, but nothing worked. As the days passed, the zit became bigger and bigger until it had become an unpoppable boil. The redness and yellowish puss were not only unsightly, but vomit inducing.

Finally, the pain became too unbearable. She could no longer sleep on her back. She went to the doctor’s to have it removed. The doctor looked at it and said that it would be easy to remove and that the pain would immediately vanish.

The doctor took a scalpel and sliced into the boil. Once the pressure was released, puss shot everywhere. It splattered onto the doctor’s gown and face mask. The boil oozed yellow fluid. The doctor squeezed out the puss and greenish-yellow liquid, eventually revealing what had caused the irritation.

A small creature emerged from the wound covered in puss and blood. It got larger as time passed. It then hopped to the ground and grew to the size of a man. The doctor was so frightened that he had backed his chair against the wall.

The creature’s body was quite distorted. His stomach was sunk in, revealing his ribcage. His legs were bent backwards and seemed unable to support his body. His arms dangled lifelessly next to his sides and the hair on his head was so thin that it was countable. The ugliness of his face was unfathomable. His teeth had rotted to the core and he had a gaping hole where his left eye should be. No part of his body could be called natural, neither by size nor shape.

When he opened his mouth to speak, a foul stench filled the air. Neither patient nor doctor could bear the smell. With a wheeze, the creature looked at the doctor and spoke with an unsettling voice, a sort of gargle. 

“You may purge her body of puss, but you will never purge her soul of hatred. I am her, and she is me.”

The girl’s body began to deteriorate in much the same way as the creature’s body had. Within seconds, the girl’s body laid lifelessly on the examiner’s table. The corpse reeked of sulfur and burnt flesh. The creature left, leaving behind the decaying shell of a being.