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There Goes The Neighborhood by Kris P. Kreme

There Goes The Neighborhood by Kris P. Kreme

Three best friends are chatting outside their homes one evening, ignoring the crazy lady across the street who always watches from her window.

There’s much more than gossip in the air tonight though, a meteor or something scaring them all and crashing in the woods nearby.

Chasing it down, to their amazement they find aliens, but are zapped with alien technology and told to go home and forget what they saw.

The problem is, the aliens have left them highly suggestible, both mentally and physically and now commonly said things are turning their lives upside down.

 

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In the typical suburban neighborhood everyone knows Berta Jones, the woman constantly spying on everyone else through the windows in her home. She’s nosy and annoying but everyone just puts up with it and ignores her, a tactic even her husband Hank has mastered. Tonight though something is about to be seen that can never be explained nor believed, and it’s taking the whole neighborhood with it.

Carmen, Abigail, and Maggie have grown up in the neighborhood together, risen through to the cusp of adulthood, three seniors and best friends at the local high school. Each of them has their own unique personalities, whether it’s the exotic Carmen dealing with an overbearing stepfather, the spoiled yet sweet Abigail who enjoys being an only child, or the frustrated Maggie whose stepbrother Van is becoming more of a nuisance each and every day. They all enjoy their time together, chatting one evening on the lawn outside, fully aware that batty Berta is staring their way as usual.

A huge sonic boom and flaming fire from the sky above changes everything, and sends the girls diving for cover as something crashes into the forest nearby. Fearful that it could have been a plane, though assuming it was a meteor, the three curious teenage girls go running off into the woods to investigate as Berta tries to convince her disbelieving husband of what she saw.

Most it seems are easily writing off the sound, the crash, as nothing more than some low flying plane, possibly a military jet on maneuvers, but the girls are finding the absolute last thing they ever expected.

Aliens have crashed outside the neighborhood, and two odd little creepy looking men are currently working on repairs to their glowing spherical ship. Immediately upon being spotted, one of the little aliens loads a strange cylinder device and fires a bright beam at each of the girls, shocking and freezing them instantly.

As the creatures determine the local language by tapping into the teenagers’ minds, they reveal that they too are just adolescents out for a spin in Dad’s ship. Of course they can’t get caught so they offer a simple treatment, mind manipulation by just informing the girls that they are to return home remembering nothing of what they saw or what happened here.

It’s an easy solution with one slight flaw, the beam they used to make the girls both physically and mentally suggestible doesn’t wear off right away and as Carmen, Abigail, and Maggie return home, they find that anything spoken to them in even a slight suggested way becomes instantly true.

When Abigail is told by her father to hop to it on her homework, she literally can’t stop hopping. When Maggie is told she sucks by her annoying bratty stepbrother, she finds her body literally turning into a sucking machine, no less than the best vacuum on the market. And when Carmen hears her overbearing stepfather complain to her mom that her daughter is an idiot, she finds her once bright young mind popping into dull stupidity and a simpleness she has never known before.

Simple often overlooked turns of phrase are turning three best friends into freaks and bimbos and the neighborhood unknowingly is descending into chaos at the hands of aliens who simply want to fix their ship and get out of there.

Ultimately it’s summed up best in the ramblings of the neighborhood gossip who witnesses so much of the chaos. There Goes the Neighborhood.

 

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