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Friday 18 December 2020

Tales From The Crypt- Wish You Were Here by Mark Antony Raines

 




Mr and Mrs Smith were eagerly anticipated the arrival of their beloved son Richard,a Sergeant Major who just finished a tour of India,both knew he would come back telling fantastic tales of his latest adventures.

Richard talks for some time then says the most bizarre take he had was when he meet a local fakir who sold him a mummified monkeys law which is said to grant three wishes but if used it will come at a cost you may not like,but Richard himself refused to believe in such rubbish and put it down to a fragment of the imagination.

So after weeks had gone by and Richard had gone back to back to camp,Mr and Mrs Smith curiosity was getting the better if them and after much teasing And daring finally Mrs Smith picked u the mummified monkeys paw and wished for a million pounds to help but the house,have a better car,holidays and some money to have a comfortable life.

The next day Mr Smith goes to work as always to the local factory as he has done for the last forty years 

After hearing of her husbands death Mrs Smith receives a phone call from her husband s insurance company informing her she was to receive a payment of one million pounds once the investigation was over has her husband had taken a life insurance policy out with them some time ago.
A week after Mr Smith funeral and Max with grief Mrs Smith wishes her husband was still alive .
About an hour a knock came to the door and Mrs Smith fumbled At the front door wondering who it was.
She open s the door to find standing in front of her ,her departed husband badly mutilated body,trying to get in to be with her,and in a moment of sheer panic wishes this series of events never happened At all.
Suddenly Mr and Mrs Smith disappear nothing left but a brief minute moment of existence then nothing but air.

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