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by Ben Desroches
"The Story for Cruci-Fiction in Space"
Marilyn is watching T.V., the view is first person (you are Marilyn). An advertisment for any familiar band ends, then a news flash Columbine is happening, a certain 'shock-rocker' is blamed, he changes the channel and there's more things like that. After he gets away from Columbine there are now things about the Kennedy's dying all over. He can't find anything good after trying many channels so he turns it off.
He goes out of the living room into what appears to be a kitchen. He grabs a bottle of pills that simply says 'Drugs' on it. He reaches inside and sorts through all the colored pills and picks a blue one. Engraved on it is 'Drug', he takes it with a glass of water that he pours.
Then he goes outside to what appears to be a backyard. He looks over to his destination, the pool, a great place to forget everything. Everything seems to be normal until he looks over to some trees. On four of the many trees each one of his band members are on crucifixes. He looks away, he looks at the grass where he sees an old fashioned gun, just lying there. He looks back at the trees and sees nothing.
He goes into the pool and lays at a raft and he just looks up into a pale blue sky with scattered clouds all around. A plane flies from the right of his view and flies slowly to his left. When it's almost out of view he haluciates that the plane is the gun that he saw earlier on the ground.
Distrubed by this image, he closes his eyes. He sees himself on stilts under strobes lights and he's raising one arm singing. He opens his eyes again and looks over at the tree. He halocinates again that the tree turns into a cross and that he's on it. He sees himself look into the sky so he (on the raft) looks to where the crucified Manson looks in the sky. When he looks up he sees the same plane he saw earlier. It started from the same position that it had left off the first time.
The plane turns back into a gun. He then looks ahead to view the path of the plane, he imagines a large T.V. suddenly ahead of it. Then he visualizes the plane crashing into the T.V.
He closes his eyes again and sees his band playing and him on stilts still singing. After that he opens his eyes to the crash and there's a big cross where the gun/T.V. ccrash had occured. He looks over to the trees and sees himself on the cross and then he disappears and his band mates are on their crosses staring at him. Then, just Pogo, Twiggy and him are on crosses.
Abruptly, someone comes over Manson on the raft in the pool as he's near the edge and shoots him in the face in the gun that was on the ground. He never saw it coming and it is impossible to see who the shooter is. All he sees is the gun barrel being fired because the shooter got it so close.
