Crawling Threat

Monday

The detectives were all called into the briefing room for a special announcement from the captain. Apparently, they were all being assigned to the same case: people around town were found with their skulls open, brains scooped out. It was exciting and scary. Everybody knew somebody, even a friend of a friend, who was killed in this way. Casualties reached 9% of the city’s population and more cases kept being reported.

Wednesday

Detective Krug was on the case, he was examining leads, but he was not finding anything. His youth’s ambition was giving him a hard time. He was on his way home when he saw his neighbor on the sidewalk. The neighbor’s skull had been neatly opened. The brain was missing.

Friday

Detective Matheson thought she had found an eye witness, but when she reached him, he had already been de-brained.

Sunday

Detective Krug and detective Matheson witnessed a de-braining. A tiny but deadly blade burst out of a person’s skull and cut around to remove the scalp. Then, the wielder of the blade appeared. It was the brain itself!

It popped out of the person’s skull and crawled away to safety.

”What do you think about that?” asked detective Krug, all shook up.

”Welp, looks like we have our perp,” said detective Matheson, lighting a cigarette. “It’s a real shame we cannot slap a pair of cuffs on him."

"Why are the brains leaving the skulls, though?” he asked. “Is it because we are trapped in the solipsism of social media? Are we slaves to our bodies and our technology? Are selfies and pop music driving brains out of humanity? Is that why they crawl out?”

Matheson let out a puff of smoke. “If they are, maybe they’re taking this whole thing a bit too seriously,” she said simply.

Posted by: Paweł Kowaluk