The Evil Arm

 

         It was a cold, dark, cloudy day, and Cinderella had just gotten a tattoo placed on her arm.  She

 was so proud of it that she was showing it off to everyone.  While it made some people sick, others 

liked it saying they wanted one too.  Two people noticed that something was wrong with her arm 

though for it had bruising and swelling from the elbow to her hand.

         These two friends (Dick and Jane) took her out to eat at a fancy restaurant.  Jane who had a tattoo

spoke to her first telling her that she needed to go see a doctor.  She refused saying that it was just a 

rare side effect to the tattoo.  Dick thought maybe she had no insurance and could not afford it. 

Cinderella assured him that she had insurance with Med Mob.  Knowing this fact Dick advised her to 

go see the doctor.  She once again refused saying, "You do not know what you are talking about, 

because, you do not have a tattoo. "

           The friends stopped talking and requested for the waitress to give them the bill, which came to a

total of $99.99.  The three of them divided this up leaving a tip of nineteen dollars.  Dick said, "prices 

are so high these days due to crude oil prices being so high." 

            Cinderella added to that, "Yeah, I hear they won't even show the price of crude oil on the ticker 

tape on television anymore."

             Jane just piped in, "do not worry be happy!  If you do all that all your troubles will go A-wall."

             They all laughed as Cinderella drove them home.  Cinderella and Jane did face time on their 

phones as they got ready to go to work at ABC Care Center for Adults.  Dick didn't care much he was

more concerned with Cinderella's arm.

              Later that evening as Cinderella was driving to Tubular Automotive her arm continued to 

swell up like a balloon.  All of a sudden as she was taking a client to Wackey World, the arm blew up, 

as blood, flesh, and bones exploded from the poison in the tattoo.  This left her with only one good arm 

to use to drive with.  The arm she was left to drive with was her bad arm.  Leaving her to have to train 

her bad arm to do all the work that the good arm use to do.      

              The fragments of the exploded arm somehow regrouped itself together.  In fact, it mutated      

itself until it was a full human being which taunted Cinderella, telling her, "she should have seen the 

doctor then the explosion might never have happened."  Then The Arm left off with a wicked laugh.

              Cinderella was scarred, and she did not know what to do.  So, she called the head of the Mob 

Squad, Tony Garcia, what had happened.  Tony sat Cinderella down getting a description of The Arm.

Having a description of The Arm he put a hit out on it.  Cinderella did not think that was necessary 

since The Arm was part of her.  

               She explained all of this to Tony, but Tony felt it was an evil part of her that must be 

eliminated.  Cinderella understood all this as she shed a tear for The Arm.  In the meantime, Tony 

promised to put a bodyguard on Cinderella.

                At that time The Arm showed up behind Tony and strangled him to death.  As Tony died The

Arm said, "Tony Garcia is the true evil around here."

               To which Cinderella awoke in a scream as her car hit a tree.  An ambulance came, and took 

her to the Other Hospital.  There she was treated for Speed, broken bones, and a swollen arm.  She was 

told that she had fallen asleep at the wheel, and her car was totaled.  She was also told that they had to

let the poison out of her arm, because her body was reacting to it.  As it was, she would have to spend 

at least a week in the hospital. 

                Cinderella was in tears and asked for a phone to call her husband, as well as Tony Garcia.

Once she was sure that all was okay, she was happy.  To remove the poison however, they would have 

 to remove the beautiful tattoo. 

Paul D. Eccles