TERROR BROUGHT IN BY FILTH FLIES...

WRITTEN BY NANDA NAIR A

A story of a woman who experienced panic attacks due to her imagination

That room hasn't been opened for months. It was basically used for ironing her clothes. When her mother-in-law went to her youngest son's house, that room was finally abandoned. But she does clean the room, keep the drawers ready and used the almirah. But the bathroom was never used again.

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"See, do not call me for dinner tonight. I might be a little late. The shop's busy" her husband noted that afternoon.

Usually he closes his shop by seven and returns home for dinner but that day since there was a carnival going on in the residence, he was too involved in the shop.

It was only four in the evening. When he got a little break he returned home to have some snacks.

"It smells really bad". she remarked.

" What? You mean my dress?"

"No, the room. Your mom's room. Remember that day when all that oil from her hair clogged in the drain? How bad it smelled?"

"But I thought you don't use it anymore?"

"Exactly.Neither do you. But it has that clogged smell. Please help me clean for a little while."

"Fine, fine. Let me just finish off these pakoras."

After he washed his hands he decided to help his wife.

The moment they entered the room it started stinking very badly. Unbearable! He went out to check the drains and the piper that followed the drains.Nothing.Absolutely Nothing.Nothing to clog or smell bad.

"An unfortunate mouse must have got stuck behind the almirah. Just help me move the almirah." he ordered. By now he was quite frustrated.A man who needs everything to be done in jiffy will honestly be irritated by now.

All they could find after moving the almirah away from the walls was cobwebs. By now the room was filled with big, really large houseflies.The kind of flies you find on carcass or animal droppings.

"Do you accidentally poop anywhere here?" he tried joking in spite of the frustration.

Without any reply, his wife just stood there completely lost. By now thirty minutes had passed. One of the workers from the shop came to call him back for work. He surrendered.

"We will check tonight. You close the door and get engaged. Okay? Don't ponder too much over it."

Men can say that but will ladies do that?

Firstly she cleaned the walls that had the cobwebs. She tried shooing away the flies but they were adamant. Desperate, she closed the door and switched on the television.

There was a girl dancing in some reality show but it didn't amuse her at all. Within thirty minutes, the "lady gene" started its work. She was too restless. She wanted to find out what the clogged smell was. A smell only ladies during their menstrual periods can relate to. The smell of a little old blood. The stench of blood! When she opened the door to the room what she saw puzzled her. The room was filled with a hundred filth flies! This time the scene caught her. A terror ran down her spine. The filth flies concentrated their search on the overhead shelves. Gathering up her never found courage, she climbed on top of her bed and she tried to pull the shelf door. It hadn't been opened for a while and so she had to put on some effort. And when she finally opened it.... she saw hair!!!

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A dead body couldn't be found. But the cops were sure with all their evidence that they gathered that the dead man's corpse were somewhere around the house. But, but they couldn't find it. Finally they discovered a place near the septic tank, covered with filth flies. Filth flies were circling around the once dug up earth. The cops guessed it right. Almost 10 m deep, a dead body, on the process of decaying was found. The culprit was later jailed. This famous movie scene was the first thing that was delivered to her brain.

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She opened the shelf a little to find dark brown hair. She didn't have the courage to open it further. She closed it tight. The front door of the house is almost every time during the day left opened. Maybe someone sneaked into the house when she was busy in the kitchen with the grinder working. Kept a dead body on the shelf and left when they made sure no one was watching. Now she and her husband will be jailed. Will be hanged to death. Her youngest daughter is yet to be married. Who will look after her now? With exhaustion from the fright she fell on the floor and started crying.

But now she knew she had to face the truth. She had to call her husband and inform. Washing her face she ran to the shop and stammered, "Plea, ... Please come over".

Smelling something bad must have happened he returned back home.

"What's the issue?"

"In the shelf, in the shelf! The one overhead!"

"Lemme check."

Since she had opened it a little the flies got excited and now they were buzzing around. Men are great. No movie scenes, no crime scenes get into their head even in the wildest situations. He climbed on the bed and opened it straight away to find, to find a corpse. The carcass of a Malabar Spotted Civet!!!

It's larger than a cat and has a tail almost one meter in length!

And it had dark brown fur.

All mistakes. Through the air hole it got into the inside of the shelf. But once it got inside it couldn't get out. It was injured severely. Some fox must have bitten it. Her husband using a towel took it out and buried it deep down in the earth. Now the only work left was to clean the shelf and when she took out the bucket from the shelf, almost a liter of blood oozed out to the walls and very slowly dripped down on the floor.

There were blankets in the shelf drained completely in blood. She took the mat along with the blood drained blankets and burnt them all in a heap. Cleaning wasn't neither a choice nor an option for her. Then she mopped the floor, the walls and the shelves clean. Later at night when her husband came back from work he saw she lying down her on the dining table, having a sound sleep. The room was sterilized too. The fright, the terror was the one that exhausted her.

Forgetting everything she fell asleep.