I was thinking of one of those italicized Lovecraft endings, like: It was only then that I truly understood the meaning of the loathsome mass of shed skin in the apartment!
(From the story "The Skin in the Apartment," of course.)
So writing backwards from that point, as gridley says, it'd make more sense for her not to know what it is at first.
And, now that I think of it, one of the creepy Lovecraft things is the way you can be really close to the THING without realizing it - just over the threshhold, inside your walls, that sort of thing.
Maybe Arthur's physical body is still in the apartment, only transformed into a swarm of disgustingly skin-colored insects. Something like roaches, only not.
So Minty goes up the fire escape, lifts the window to get in, sees this heap of skin, and then a bunch of really strange bugs swarms out across the ceiling and up to the roof. And she runs.
How's that sound? Anyone wanna do that or something like it?
And if anyone wants in, just ask - there's plenty of room for more writers. |
