54. The Monster

Ah-moe covered his mouth to muffle his own screams as he ran away from the door. After a while, he slowly crept back to the door to take another peek. It was still there!

After several times of running away, Ah-moe found the courage to look at the monster a while more. And suddenly found that figure looked very odd.

Two long thick antenna, fully clothed, with something shoe-like at the end of them, were swaying wildly. The main body was short and stubby, with two arms were flailing around just above ground level. The arms were attached to the main body at a very low position, only about 20 cm off the ground. This creature had a weird head attached at the end of the body, directly below the flailing arms. It had a rather pointy and soft forehead, and lots of mud covering its face. It had three very short and stiff looking, black coloured legs anchoring it to the ground.

As the mud slowly dripped off, Ah-moe noticed that this creature's face was totally unlike any he had seen before. The mouth came first on the face, followed by an upturned nose, and then a pair of red-angry eyes staring at him below the nose. The gaping mouth was stuffed of mud. That was what was making the muffled noise.

Then suddenly he realised.

"Ah-mo!"