Philipp Mählmann
Let's see, what's in the mailbox:
Bill, notice, advertising, bill -oh, a package... pfft, another marketing trick with a free sample of a new diet drug called Slump-fast - 100% guaranteed weight loss, even after eating prime ribs for a whole week while only working the chew muscles... well, it's free and you've gained a bit weight - how bad can it be?
1 It works! Unbelievable, it works! Slump-Fast got thousands of happy customers in the last few weeks, who enjoy eating anything they want, while still losing weight. No side effects, nothing - and all the while, people enjoy eating more... and more... and more... ... 'Brains!' ... !
2 Behind Slump-Fast is a group of cultists-cum-businessmen, who worship the old ones. The drug itself contains eggs of a microscopic form of extraterrestrial larvae, which will spread inside the body, nourishing themselves from body fat. They won't harm the carrier's body or internal organs (at least in the first years...). However, they'll start to take control over their victims body, first only while sleeping or unconsciousness, later even in conscious state, making them obedient to the cultist's telepathic orders.
3 A week later: Of course, no loss of weight. Another bluff package! In fact, analysis shows, that the drug only contains the usual ingredients allowed for a non-prescriptive drug: herbs, water, salt, plutonium... Plutonium?!
Copyright (c) 2008 Philipp Mählmann
Philipp is a law student from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany - tries to improve his English, just stumbled across the site, and, well, decided to give it a try...
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