Brain Stealers by Rodman Philbrick

Author:Rodman Philbrick
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781497685437
Publisher: Open Road Media Teen & Tween

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Blind and petrified, I felt something probe hesitantly at my brain. It felt like the cold wet nose of a dog.

With all my heart I wanted to squirm away but I couldn’t move. The probe came again, like a nudge. It seemed uncertain. It probably couldn’t figure out which part of my brain to slurp up first.

Then suddenly a picture flashed into my head. A spaceship! It was so huge it made the sky look small.

Why was I thinking of something stupid like that? But I wasn’t. I—panic exploded in my mind like a bomb, shooting fragments of thought in all directions. Trouble was, not all of the thoughts were mine.

The alien blob was thinking inside my head! My brain tried to yank away but the thing held on like it had pincers.

As my mind struggled in terror the spaceship picture re-formed and grew bigger until I couldn’t think of anything else. I wasn’t even sure who I was!

The spaceship filled my mind, gliding majestically through the starlit darkness of outer space. But something about it wasn’t right. It looked like a made-up picture. Then the image focused on the back end of the ship where puffs of smoke were coming out. That didn’t look right either. A spaceship wouldn’t puff smoke that way.

Before I could figure what was weird about it, the smoke stopped completely, the ship wobbled and began to fall out of the sky.

The ship fell straight toward a blue dot, like a blue marble. As the blue dot got bigger I could see it was supposed to be Earth. But it wasn’t like the Earth I had seen in space pictures. It looked like a little kid’s crayon drawing.

And then the Harley Hills popped up on the blue ball. They were huge, like mountains, and even more menacing and spooky than I had ever seen them.

My panic was simmering and sputtering under the force of the alien pictures in my mind. I wanted to push the alien out but I couldn’t.

Maybe it was because of that—because I was so scared myself—that I didn’t at first recognize the feeling that went with the pictures. I could tell something bad had happened to the spaceship, that was obvious.

But then I became aware of a sensation surrounding the spaceship. It was a queasy, nagging feeling that seemed to latch on to my fear and magnify it until I felt my brain would shiver to pieces. I tried to control it, to tell myself it was no use to get the screaming heebie-jeebies, but the feeling kept growing.

And finally I realized it wasn’t me. It was the alien who was afraid! Terrified, in fact.

At that moment I heard a noise, a rumbling, like distant thunder. It didn’t fit with the images in my brain. It was coming from outside of me.

Something was coming. My heart started to pound with double fear—the alien’s and my own. It was a horrible feeling. My heart beat against my ribs like it was trying to pry them apart and escape.

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