"I Hope It's Something I Ate" By Don Miles

      Missy Bornnegan was a born again Christian and was a prime driver in The U.S. Congress to get abortion banned in any form, at any time and for any reason. She had been very satisfied with her results as she had led the way to a total ban on abortion. However, as she lay on the hospital gurney with tremendous pains in her abdominal region, she began to regret her victory. She watched as pointed protrusions lifted up and then went down in her belly. It looked like fingers with claws trying to poke through. She screamed in pain and terror. The nurse came to comfort her and told her the doctor would be there in a moment. "I wish we could help you dear, I really do," said the nurse with a terrifying smirk on her face. Just then the doctor showed up, and he looked familiar to Missy. "Hello Miss Bornnegan, how are you? Not good I see. Do you remember me?" Missy was puzzled but then suddenly remembered who he was. At the hearings in Washington on abortion, he was the pro-choice doctor who testified. She had totally destroyed him by insinuating that his tour of duty in Iraq had made him blood thirsty and at heart he was a killer. It ruined his reputation and he had to move his family to a different state as she remembered. She had taken pleasure in all of it. But now she realized she may have made a mistake. You see, all over the world, women had started to become pregnant with demons. Babies with claws and horns and slits for pupils, very aggressive from the moment of emergence. The problem beyond being demons was the way they were born. They did not wait to go out through the normal channel but they would burst forth through the stomach, tearing through with their claws. No woman had survived this horror. The only way to save the woman was an abortion. The irony of demons invading Christian wombs and then there being no way to save the woman because of Christian "values" of all life being sacred, was thick. Missy suddenly realized the horrible truth. Not all life is sacred. "Please doctor, remove this evil creature, give me an abortion! Please!". "I would like to Missy, but because of you, If I give you an abortion in this state, I will get the death penalty. All I can do is try to alleviate some of the pain, but the demon will be born." Just then, the creature inside her began to push out of her body. She screamed in agony as it tore through her to come out into the light. It screeched a horrible sound as it took its first breath just as Missy took her very last.