The tale of the Scorpions
Once upon a time young Mr. Kaol decided to buy some scorpions.
There were three of them, each about an inch long, and identical-looking.
He kept them in a proper enclosure, so that they didn't escape, and fed and watered them regularly.

One day he went to clean them out, as they made rather a mess with the dismembered body-parts of their food.
He took out the water bowl, pieces of bark and flat rocks, counted the three scorpions, and then carefully placed a piece of bark back over them, where they happily stayed as he cleaned out the tank.

He put the lid back on, dropped a couple of baby locusts in as "play-mates", and went to do some computer-related work.

As he sat there, happily typing away, he felt something tickle the back of his neck.
He assumed it has a stray hair, and ignored it.

It wasn't a stray hair.

He felt it tickle him again.

He realised it had legs.

He felt a moment of cold panic, as his fingers brused something hard and slightly pointy. He then felt a nip, and a jab to his finger.

He got up, and walked briskly to a mirror, and looked.

There was a big fuck-off scorpion on the top of his collar. Dilemma... Where did this scorpion come from? It was about twice the size of his three that were safely in their vivarium upstairs...

Our dashing young hero grabbed an empty glass, deftly flicked the unexpected hitch-hiker from his neck into the container, and dumped the extra scorpion in with the others.

Turning his attention to his recently-stung finger, he paniced a little, then realised that this particular species had venom roughly the same in power to a bee.

It turned out that the mysterious "gigantor-scorpion" was in fact one of the three.
It had shed it's skin, and been lifted out of the tank under one of the rocks.
The skin it left behind had fooled our brave hero into thinking it was a whole, real scorpion.

So, that was the tale of how Kaol was stung by a scorpion. Written in the third person. Because I'm bored today.
( Cawl, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 10:33, 5 replies)

Well
I like this story, it's amusing.

*click*
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 11:41, closed)

*makes
"wanker" sign*
( Cawl, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 11:49, closed)

I found it
both challenging and genre defying.

Gets a big click from me.

*nose grows*

:)
(Bazongaloid, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 11:54, closed)

*loads shotgun*
*prepares for a Cobain-style exit*
( Cawl, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 11:58, closed)

Don't like scorpions
Scorpions = Spiders with extra claws and pointy bits. Ick.
( Fireflier La la la la, not listening on, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 12:56, closed)