Worms

Ivo came home exhausted after a night out with his friends. He had stuffed himself with seafood, drunk plenty of wine, and had a good laugh with his friends. He was ready to go to bed and wake up feeling like a new person the next day.

That night, already lying in bed, he began to dream, a charming dream. He dreamed of his childhood, of how much easier life was back then. He dreamed of the games he used to play, the naughty things he used to do, and the friends he had during those times. Ivo was happy to revisit those memories in his dream, but then he was transported to another time. The present. Where he was now an adult.

He found himself standing in front of the mirror, examining his old body. He used to be in great shape, but with age, he had become chubby. As he examined each part of his body, he noticed a small bump just above his belly button. He leaned in closer to the mirror to try and figure out what that little lump was.

He could tell it was under his skin. It was long and narrow. When he touched it, he felt it was rigid. He couldn’t quite understand what it was. He thought to himself that he should book a doctor’s appointment to investigate it. He began to press and touch it in different ways to see if he could discover what it was.

When suddenly, it began to move. Whatever it was, it was very much alive and wriggling under his skin. Ivo started to panic. Other small bumps began appearing all over his body, shifting from side to side under the skin.

Ivo stared at his reflection in the mirror and his whole body was covered with little things moving under his skin. He felt like screaming, but the moment he opened his mouth, something came out. WORMS! Hundreds of them, coming out of his mouth.

Ivo woke up at that moment. He was distressed and ran to the bathroom where he threw up everything in his stomach. Maybe the dinner didn’t sit well and triggered that nightmare. He sat on the floor, relieved to have emptied himself.

But then he looked at the mess he had thrown up and saw something moving. Something that looked like... WORMS!

Ivo spent the rest of his life feeling those worms crawling inside him and eating him up from the inside. They consumed him completely to the point where he became a bony and fragile figure.