Aug. 12, 2026

Odd Egg: Weird Experiences Turn Grotesque in Spooky Season Body Horror

Odd Egg: Weird Experiences Turn Grotesque in Spooky Season Body Horror

Key Takeaways

  • Weekly Spooky welcomes new author Alex Grass for his first appearance on the show, featuring a terrifying horror story from his book 'Infernal Tramps: Tales of Weird Terror'.
  • The episode delivers a heavy dose of body horror and dark comedy centered around a mysterious carton of free eggs given by a strange man representing the Keystone Cooperative Growers Association (KCGA).
  • Protagonist Maryellen's seemingly innocent breakfast takes a gruesome turn when she discovers that the final egg in the carton hatches a horrifying creature with a human face and six spidery legs.
  • As the creature grows and undergoes monstrous metamorphosis by consuming victims like Maryellen's high school boyfriend Danny, it spreads a deeply unsettling suburban nightmare.
  • Listeners are reminded of a golden rule in horror: if a painfully polite stranger offers you free farm-fresh eggs, and something inside the shell starts scratching back, you should probably run.

Spooky season body horror hatches in “Odd Egg” by Alex Grass, a weird creature-horror story about a carton of free eggs, a smiling stranger, and something impossible waiting inside the final shell.

After Roger from the mysterious Keystone Cooperative Growers Association leaves Maryellen a dozen farm-fresh eggs and promises that a god lives inside them, breakfast takes a grotesque turn. Eleven shells are empty. The last produces a tiny human head on six spiderlike legs—and the thing does not stay tiny for long. As it grows, feeds, and changes, Maryellen is pulled into a nightmare of body horror, monstrous metamorphosis, dark comedy, and the coming Time of the Egg.

A perfect ramp-up to Halloween, this narrated horror story is made for listeners seeking scary Halloween stories, spooky stories, weird fiction, creature horror, body horror stories, and offbeat horror narration with a gruesome pulp-monster edge.

This episode marks Alex Grass’s first appearance on Weekly Spooky. The ebook of Infernal Tramps: Tales of Weird Terror by Alex Grass is available for only 99 cents on Amazon, and is free to read with Kindle Unlimited. You can also find out more at www.infernaltramps.com.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Who wrote the story featured in the 'Odd Egg' episode of Weekly Spooky?

The story 'Odd Egg' was written by author Alex Grass and is featured in his collection 'Infernal Tramps: Tales of Weird Terror'.

What is the premise of 'Odd Egg' by Alex Grass?

Maryellen accepts a carton of free farm-fresh eggs from a strange, egg-headed man representing the Keystone Cooperative Growers Association, only to discover a grotesque, mutating creature inside the final shell.

Where can listeners find more work by Alex Grass?

The ebook 'Infernal Tramps: Tales of Weird Terror' by Alex Grass is available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited, with more information at www.infernaltramps.com.

How can fans support the Weekly Spooky podcast?

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A smiling stranger leaves Mary Ellen a carton of free

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eggs and promises a god lives inside. Eleven shells crack

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open empty, the twelve hatches something impossible on six spidery legs,

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and what it becomes next is hungry. What's that? You

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want to be scared? Come with me. You will experience

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tales over our room, ghosts and death. He does not

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recommend it for the week at our tart listeners in

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the dark. It's more fun that way way. This is

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Weekly Speaking. Hello, my spooky is It's Wednesday, and you

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know what that means. It's time for a little spooky

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in your weekly. I'm your host and narrator, Enrique Kuto,

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and tonight we have a story from a brand new author,

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a man named Alex Grass, who submitted a story from

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his brand new book Infernal Tramps Tales of Weird Terror,

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and I think he's going to fit in very well.

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readings at Weeklyspooky dot com slash join now as for tonight,

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most people know better than to accept food from a stranger.

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But when that stranger is painfully polite, the eggs are

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free and your refrigerator is empty, suspicion can start to

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feel a lot like bad manners. Mary Ellen only wants

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breakfast instead. The final shell in the carton reveals something

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with a human face, way too many legs, and a

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life cycle no chicken could have ever dreamed of. Soon,

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the thing in her kitchen is growing, and it may

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not only be a servant to the mysterious KCGA. So spookies,

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take this story as a bit of warning. Before you

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crack your next egg, listen closely. If something inside scratch

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his back, put down the skillet and run, but stick

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around if you're hungry for more. Odd egg by Alex Grass.

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There was a man waiting for me on my front

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porch when I got home from work. He waved at

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me as I walked up my driveway to my house.

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I had a strange feeling about him, because he was

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a strange looking man. There are strangers and then there

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are strangers, and there's a world of difference between them.

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But I waved back. Good evening, I said, and to you,

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the man said. His head was shaped like an egg.

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It was almost one third taller than the average man's head.

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Can I help you, I said, Let me not be rude.

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It's my pleasure to make your acquaintance in the way

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of comedy and fellowship. I'd like to introduce myself. My

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name is Roger. He held out for a handshake. I

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shook his hand. His fingers were long and cold and bumpy.

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A strange stranger's, strange head and strange hands. Roger. I'm

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Mary Ellen. Let me also not be rude, but still

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be direct. I've had a long day at work. Maybe

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you could come right out and tell me what you're

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doing here and how I can help you egghead. Roger nodded,

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like I'd said something true and wise. I can certainly

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appreciate that. If there's some thing that I can appreciate,

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it's directness. That's what folks are missing these days. Directness

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that along with direction. I'm a rather direct man myself,

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he said, though in the middle of disproving the same,

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So let me get right to it. He bent down

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and reached into a paper grocery bag, then pulled out

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a carton of eggs. I'm from the Keystone Cooperative Grower Association,

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and I would like to offer you these eggs. They're

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farm fresh and cruelty free, and it would be my

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honor and the honor of my fellow growers if you

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would accept this gift and use these eggs to your

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own delight. He held out the carton. I took the eggs. Oh, oh, okay,

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this is like this is a what is this a

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carton of eggs? Ma'am. His smile was too wide for

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his face, and it looked like the gesture was hurting him. Yes,

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I understand that part, good, he said, But why are

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you giving out free eggs? This is just a service

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we provide to the community. You see the KCGA. That's

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our initialism for brevit you understand. The k CGA's position

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is that to enjoy a good egg is to enjoy life.

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We want the whole world to enjoy their lives, which

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to some degree means we want them to enjoy our

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eggs too. Oh, do you know that a god lives

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inside our eggs? How's that? Now? The time will come

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when the god filled eggs will feed the sick and

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the poor, until the sick and the poor are no more.

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That time will be the time of the egg. Everything

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unborn will be born, and everything dead will be born again.

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All will fall under the judgment of the many heads.

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I stared at him. Is this a religious thing? I'm

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not really much of a church goer. There will be

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no more faith when the world's flags are blooded by

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the many heads. The light of sanctification is kept only

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inside the egg. I've only ever met one scientologist. Are

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you a scient Well, as I said, it would make

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all of us at the KCGA just happy as the

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day is long. If you'd only take those eggs and

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enjoy them for yourself, and with that, I will leave

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you and wish you a wonderful rest of your evening.

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Enjoy your eggs and enjoy your life, ma'am, and if

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you can enjoy both at once, he turned and sprinted

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toward the woods. I looked down at my carton of eggs,

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thinking of l Ron Hubbard. The KCGA man was half

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a bubble off plumb, and I was undecided as far

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as eating lunatic produce. I thought I'd mull it over

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before frying up the man's eggs. But maybe I was

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being mistrustful. I reminded myself to keep in the habit

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of having faith in people until they gave me a

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reason not to. I woke up hungry Saturday morning, still

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in my pajamas. I maundered downstairs with the residue of

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sleep in my eyes. I looked in my refrigerator. There

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was nothing in there, nothing but the KCGA eggs. I

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picked the egg carton up out of the refrigerator. I

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put the eggs on the counter next to where the

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range was built in. I took the salted butter from

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the fridge and lobbed off a dollop into the skillet.

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I clicked the gas on the stovetop. The skillet got crackling,

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I reached for one of the eggs. I picked up

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the first egg, nice and cold from the fridge. I

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could feel the weight of the albumen and yoke inside

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the shell. But when I broke open the shell on

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the edge of the skillet, nothing came out. I felt

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like one of those rubes a magician calls on stage

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just to make fun of them. Nobody likes a trixy

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egg for breakfast. I picked up the next one, holding

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the heft of a shell full of egg. I again

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split it on the skillet, not but nothing the same

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as before. There I was starting to get miffed. I

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went through eleven eggs that way. I felt a chicken

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embryo sloshing around inside every shell. Hell, I know what

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a full egg feels like. I cracked almost all of

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them open, empty, down to one. One egg was left

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in for a penny, in for a pound. I picked

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up what I expected to be the last empty egg.

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Except when I cracked this one, something came out. It

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wasn't the yolk. An egg shaped human head plopped skittering

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into the skillet. It had two sets of three little legs,

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a set coming out of each side of the head.

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I screeched, and when the spidery little head hit the

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skillet and started sizzling, it started screeching two. I took

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the spatula and flipped the thing onto the counter. It

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moved its spindly little legs in purposeless panic, cried like

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how a baby cries. A tiny little egg sized critter

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half fried on my kitchen counter. I turned off the burner.

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I had no idea what to do next. The six

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legged head made a wheezing sound, followed by a noise

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like air being let out of a bicycle tire, and

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then it was dead. I didn't shower, or brush my teeth,

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or put real clothes on, or any of the things

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i'd earlier play to do. I poured myself three fingers

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of whiskey, grabbed the pack of cigarettes I swore off

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two months ago, and parked my ass on my front

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porch stoop. I sat there until I'd finished my whisky

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and smoked half a dozen parliaments. I tucked my old

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fashioned glass behind my dairy air. When the early risers

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passed by on their morning stroll to neighbors, who stopped

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and said they thought I'd quit smoking, I made a

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gesture of Hey, what can you do? I had some

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liquid courage to fortify me. So I re entered my

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house and went back in my kitchen. The six legged

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head was gone, but there was another egg in its place.

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This one was about the size of a grapefruit. I

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figured on driving down the state road to my friend Dustin's.

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His daddy was a poultryman, so Dustin knew lots about

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chickens and lots about eggs, and loved talking about both,

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so much so that I'd previously found him duller than

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watching paint dry. But it's not like I ever told

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him that. I put the big egg in a little

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grocery bag and hung it on the wall hooks while

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I got ready to see Dustin. By the time I

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was clean and dressed, there was someone knocking on my door.

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I went downstairs and opened it to find my old

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high school boyfriend, Danny. Danny smiled, I smiled back, Hi,

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Mary Ellen, Danny, how's tricks? Well, you know I'm in

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town to visit my brother and my new niece. He

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had a girl this time. How is good, old early Bird,

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I said. We used to call Danny's baby brother early

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Bird Earle because he was a known fuss budget, who'd

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rather lose a limb than show up at a church

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or school any less than fifteen minutes. Early, his mother

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used to say that Earle would make sure to be

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dead and resurrected twice before anyone else even knew the

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rapture had started. He's more boring than watching grass grow, say,

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I was wondering if you I'll get my purse. This

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was a semi regular thing. When Danny came back to town,

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we went out carusing. After trolling roadhouses, we returned to

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my place to as I've heard it, put Netflix and chill.

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I was out there door not a minute later. The

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grapefruit sized egg still hung on my wall hook, momentarily

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forgotten through the call of my lust. My friend Jackie

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dropped us back off at home. Three sheets to the wind,

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two blitz to steer the ship, but too old to

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be stupid enough to drunk dry either. Some call that wisdom.

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Me and Danny stood under the fading yellow porch light

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as it projected the shadows of moths aerial maneuvers. Danny

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kept grabbing at me, not in a bad way. I

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needed to concentrate because the lock kept moving away from

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my key, Mary Ellen, I you know, I like I.

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I turned around and held my finger to my lips,

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trying not to laugh. Sh I got neighbors. They're late

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when it sleeps, I mean, Danny, Hey, Danny, what do

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I mean? You mean they're sleeping when you? Danny stumbled

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back into my wind chime and made it jangle shit.

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I started laughing hysterically. Through catching my breath, I managed

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to tell Danny that I thought my neighbors probably shat

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during daylight hours too. He didn't get it. To be fair,

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I'm not sure it was a joke. I got the

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key in the lock and opened the door. Danny grabbed

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my wrist and stopped me from walking in. Hold on,

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little lady, it's late at night and the light's not bright.

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Let me check out your homestead, he said, and waggled

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his eyebrows. I laughed and held one arm toward my

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door like a girl presenting game show prizes. My hero

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your chivalrous as shit. Danny walked inside. A few steps

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in he abruptly stopped. I heard a gurgling sound, then

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a croaking sound, like when you're in really bad pain

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but don't have the wind to cry out. Danny just

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stood there spasmodically shaking, Danny, what are you doing? I

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reached inside to the left of him and switched on

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the vestibule light. I saw why Danny was shocked still

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and gurgling. Two foot and a half long barbs punctured

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his neck and the side of his head at his temple, respectively.

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There came a quick slushing sound as the barbs slickly

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slid out of his throat and skull. Danny convulsed as

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he fell to the floor. I stared, unable to move.

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A half dozen legs each like a seven foot long

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bendable stilt, carried forward a massive head the size of

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a yoga ball. My adrenal gland secreted enough to quickly

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boot me off my drunk. I put together the sequence

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in my head. The first egg gave birth to the

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first tiny head with legs. The first tiny head with

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legs gave birth to the bigger egg. The bigger egg

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gave birth to this. The barbs snapped back into the

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egg shaped head's mouth. The things six legs locomoted like

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a basketball hoophie spider crabs. Its height was all long limbs.

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I screamed. I turned to run, it snared me on

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one of its crustacean spindles. The appendage was no thicker

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than a garden hose, but the kinetic strength of the

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other five legs produced an unimpedable force. As the six

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legged head flung me like a rag doll across my

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living room, I hit head first into a wall. Everything

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went black. I woke up in the corner of my

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living room. The six legged head was much bigger than before.

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A proboscis like a livid, blood red bamboo shoot extended

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from the middle of its forehead down to the ground,

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where it had punctured Danny's body through the top of

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his skull. I heard slurping and sucking noises over a

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sound like a wet dry shop vacuum. As it sucked

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out Danny's brains and guts, the six legged head metamorphosed.

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Bulbs of flesh molded on its face, bones broke and

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reset to altered curvatures. It was a nightmare clamation a

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freakish rob boteine practical effect. Its face was turning into Danny's.

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By the time it slurped up all of Danny's insides,

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the egg's face had completely changed into his its proboscis

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shucked itself free from the swollen puncture in Danny's skull.

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My date's dead body shrunken, drained of its every wet drop.

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The six legged head noticed me as if I'd only

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just appeared. It approached my corner in the gate of

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a mutated hexapod. Once beside me, it looked down. I

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looked and saw the top of its head almost touching

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the ceiling tiles. I from KCGA. The six legged heads

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spoke in Danny's voice. I started crying, neighborly is giving eggs?

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You happiness with eggs, You loving eggs. I covered my

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mouth to blunt, hiccuping sobs, trying not to make noise.

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It was right there, God, that thing was right there.

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AND's voice, I I, My voice coming from my body

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startled me. I was flooded. Had the six legged head

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penetrated my flesh? Had it infected my brain? Was I

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a host dreaming my parasites dreams? It chittered and got louder.

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Under Danny's voice was a noisy, burbling sludgelike food through

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a gassy gut. You are happiness inside eggs, are neighboring

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happy eggs. Yes, yes, I am very happy with the eggs,

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I managed while bearing down on my weeping. The six

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legged heads seemed to think this over for a minute.

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It spoke, Eggs is community, Eggs is neighbors and neighborly.

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Eggs is friendly and are gooding. You will to buying

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more eggs. Yes, yes, I'll buy more eggs, I swear.

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I looked around for my purse. Did I have cash?

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Is that what it wanted? I could go to the

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Oh oh, I thought of something. I just I have

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to go to the bank to get money to pay you,

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I said. The six legged head was processing this as

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it worked out my proposal. It spoke its thoughts, allowed,

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bank are money, money are giving kcga kcga, god of

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people's eggs is kcga. Money is going to forg egs

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x x x exchange, I said. The six legged head

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blue dumb forced laughter out its mouth, like a grade

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schooler guffawing at a joke about political economy. Its laughter

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stopped suddenly enough to almost be violent. Eggs are money, exchange.

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Eggs is money. Our money is kcga. Money is God

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of peoples. It leaned over me with a stupid but

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penetrating gaze. Bank are where I pointed toward the door

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in town. Money are bank? I nodded, yes, the money

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is in the bank. It bent one of its spidery

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legs and scratch which the necklace underside of its head body.

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I don't know if it was thinking or aping a

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gesture it had seen a thinking creature. Make you go bank?

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It said, yes, I go bank. It skittered backward a

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few steps and opened a clear path toward the front door,

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then turned to look back at me. Eggs is money

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and our kcga, god of all peoples, you are going

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to bank. I didn't know what it wanted me to do.

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I didn't move. Go the head said, with much more

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loudness and force. I didn't need any more prompting than that.

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I got to my feet, careful to make no sudden movements.

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I tiptoed past the six leg head with as wide

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a berth as I could give. As soon as I

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was at my door, I ran. When I came back

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with the police, there was no evidence of any of

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the things I claimed had happened had actually happened. There

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was no blood on my living room carpet, no six

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legged head, no egg carton in the trash from the KCGA,

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no Danny's body, nothing, all of it gone. I was

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warned that I needed to cut back on the sauce.

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Ems came and checked me out, asked me how many

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quarters make up a dollar and who the president was.

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They said that I might have been soused, but was

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still pretty lucid. One of the EMTs nodded his head

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at me sideways while talking to one of the cops.

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The cop came over and asked me a bunch of questions.

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They were all round about secondary queries. What he was

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really asking was are you now or have you ever

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been a drunken lunatic spinster. The cop decided the answer

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was probably yes. I was cited for the misdemeanor crime

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of false alarm or report. I sought psychological counseling. You

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tend not to believe your own eyes when something happens

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like what I've precedingly described, I thought it couldn't hurt.

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After a week or so, I got a call from

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Earle asking if I'd seen Danny. I told him we'd

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gone out, and I told him that I told the

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cops too, and I left it all at that when

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Earle sees me in the grocery store. Now he gets

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a look on his face like he's smelling shit. Then

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he turns and walks the other way. I wouldn't be

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surprised if he wanted to kill me. A month later,

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there was a carton of eggs waiting on my doorstep

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when I got home from work. There was a note

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tied to the carton, nodded to it with twine. Enjoy

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the latest batch. Please remit payment at your convenience your

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friends at the KCGA. Well, my spookyes. The next time

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a painfully polite stranger offers you some free, farm fresh eggs, Remember,

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breakfast should never have so many appendages. I know they

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say breakfast is the most important meal of the day,

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but I'm gonna skip it. A huge Spooky thank you,

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and welcome to Alex Grass, making his first appearance here

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