Folklore of the Mind: Why!! >

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Folklore of the Mind is just a name I chose, basically because I want people to use creative stories from their own minds. This isn't entirely dedicated to folklore as the name suggests, there will be all kinds of post's on my blog including folklore, urban legends, horror stories both short and long, myth's, creepy poems, flash fiction and creepypasta's.

Monday 5 February 2018

Why!!

A nice respected family moved over to Geneva from Naples ten years ago. The father a doctor, the mother stayed at home and looked after the three children who now are grown up with two of them living away which left this one boy at home. This boy was special, born with a slow brain that disrupted his speech and also a condition called Acromegaly which caused an increase in the secretion of the growth hormone after normal human growth has stopped. Aged 12 he was six foot tall, now aged 24 he stands at an incredible seven foot six and looks to be continuing to grow. Hands like shovels and feet as big as most peoples heads, this boy certainly was odd in stature.

He kept to himself, mostly up in his room which was situated in the top floor of the house, the only room on that floor. He enjoyed painting, often painting very artistic pictures of love and beauty which was something that made him smile. He was a sensitive person and showed his emotions quiet regularly which from the outside was a strange site to see this gigantic person speak in such a soft manner and often breaking down in tears when he didn't get his own way or if the fish were't fed in a day. Things got to him deeply and he was aware of how he looked that's why he spent most of his time hidden away, people were uneducated about him and labeled him some horrible names, not to his face of course.

His mother loved him deeply and still treated him as if he was a child , his father also loved him but had a hard time showing it, he wasn't ashamed he just felt as if he let his son down in some way. An opportunity came about where an art gallery had an opening for new artists to showcase their talents and after much deliberation the overgrown man decided to enter. He spent the next few nights carefully coming up with something that would impress the people that needed to be impressed. On the day of note he went along with his mother and when it came the time for him to unveil his work, he did so to the applause of the crowd and more importantly the judges. He was crowned the winner and received not only the award but also a contract with this art group that traveled around the country as a sort of mobile art gallery.

He said goodbye to his parents with a heavy heart, they were worried about him but also happy that this opportunity came his way. For the next few months he traveled around loving what he done, he also grew an extra inch in the mean time but his bizarre look took a back seat in his thoughts at the moment as the happiness from painting took over his main state of emotion. Money in his pocket and making a life doing what he loves, what could go wrong?

The next week they pulled up to a town and in the town was a small shy girl named Shelly who had a wonderful sense of artistry about her. She joined the group from then on due to her special talent, over time she grew a close bond to the ever growing man. They certainly were a strange looking friendship, it was a case of little and large, Shelly was only up to his waist but they complemented each other beautifully. He felt free to share his emotions with her and she in return listened and wanted to be a shoulder for him to cry on, she was amazed by him and how such a large man had such a freedom to share how he felt. They would talk for hours after work about similar interests they had and just about a lot of random stuff, time nor inhibition restricted the two.

Aged 25 he had his first ever kiss which was also Shelly's first kiss. The pair had an amazing connection but shortly after their kiss Shelly received a letter from home ; her parents wanted her to return home as there was an opening at a major college in the area of Teaching, something she didn't really want to do but she essentially had to do what her parents wanted of her. She broke the news to the recipient of her first kiss the next day, he didn't take the news well and broke down in overwhelming sadness before angrily demanding that she left right away and to never contact him again. Shelly ran off crying and later that day she left for home never to be seen again.

The now seven foot eight man monster was in a constant state of anger, it wouldn't pass, he was unable to calm down it was like he had turned into the complete polar opposite of what he once was.
His anger drove him away from the art gang , he left a demolition behind him breaking everything he saw in sight and tossing the people that tried to stop him like they were children. Now he just walked the streets breathing heavily and frightening all that laid eyes on him, He entered a shop that sold items for couples in love and completely destroyed it, shouting in a rage " WHY!!!" repeatedly while punching the wall over and over. The police were called but once they saw what they were up against they decided that physical force was not an option here so they tased him which only made him tickle so they shot another bolt followed by another which brought him to his knees, even at this height he was still taller than most. Eventually they managed to subdue the angry giant.

He was institutionalized after this and spent most of his days in isolation banging on the reinforced door again and again shouting "why why why" which was followed by a rather softly muttered "Mommy". His rage was too much and no medication was able to cure it. A scientist was called in to take a look at him , he was placed in shackles and brought down to a dirty cold underground laboratory where the scientist ran tests on him. He was amazed at this large man and how he just snapped like that, but he didn't want to try and help him, he used the man as a test subject for his own personal gain and through his charm he was able to establish a friendship of sorts with the anger fueled giant.

The scientist requested to have this man turned over to himself for "Scientific" reasons. On the letter to confirm this, he signed the document that read  Dr. Frank N. Stein.



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