Holiday

"There was only one rule: don’t open the door.”

There was only one rule that was unusual and that was it.

You get things like that when you hire a holiday home, no pets, no smoking, and no loud music, they want to make sure the place is kept in good condition and popular for all buyers.

This was fine, but the door referred to was the green door to the cellar, where we assumed, stuff like washing stores and toilet rolls were kept,

It was a nice house and after a day exploring the village we came home, ate and watched something on television.

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They woke at about two AM and screamed. They were being eaten alive by disgusting glutinous insects burrowing into their flesh. They could still move and so ran down stairs to get out.

The front door was locked, the key wouldn't work.

The windows would not break, the insects covered the walls and dropped onto them burrowing into their flesh, they managed to brush them off their faces but the rest of their bodies were being devoured.

The back door was the same as the front, which just left theft the green cellar door.

They had no choice.

They opened the green cellar door and were drowned and consumed in a tidal wave of the glutinous insects.

Sated, the insects all returned to the cellar.

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The following day the clean-up crew came in.

"They always make such a mess, but that car is worth a pretty penny and we can empty their bank accounts with their cash cards. Tomorrow we'll readvertise"