Short Story: Abducted

SHORT STORY Abducted By Naomi Gibert

It was a beautiful sunset in the town of Lakeside Valley when teeanager Rebecca Simpson was taking a leisurely stroll with her boyfriend, Dave, in the soybean fields. The evening was quiet, the sky was cloudless and painted with orange, purple, and pink, and centered in the sky was the sun like a white glowing orb. The day seemed too perfect and Dave leaned in for a kiss…

Later that day, the entire town was buzzing with curiosity about the proclaimed abduction of Rebecca Simpson. Meanwhile Dave, her boyfriend, was being interrogated at the police station. “I leaned in for a kiss and the poof! I saw her being carried in mid air by this flying, hovering disc. In the disc peered out a little head. It was green, pale green, and out reached two regular sized arms with four webbed little fingers with little balls at the end of each. The green thing grabbed her body and took off into outer space,’’ Dave exclaimed. As he was explaining this to the unimpressed police. “Drop it boy, drop the act, we know you’re lying,’’ said Officer Peterson furrowing his eyebrow. “Yeah, whatever things you are coming up with are bogus,’’ said Officer Daniels, obviously tag teaming the good cop and bad cop act with Officer Peterson. Tragically, Dave was arrested and was sentenced to a night at prison until further notice.

After that word spread around about all sorts of crazy things. Things such as Dave murdered Rebecca and dropped the body in the woods, that Rebecca was kidnapped and being held hostage at Dave’s secret cabin, or Rebecca simply just ran away. But there were skeptics out there that thought that this all was just a hoax. In any situation, Rebecca was still missing and the town of Lakeside Valley was embroiled in a deep mystery.

At 9:00 PM that night there was a man hunt organized by the people themselves. Torches were lit, guns were loaded, and the glare of flashlights were blinding. “Rebecca, Rebecca, Rebecca Simpson,” the townspeople cried for hours but it was no use. With sorrowful hearts and raspy voices, the residents of Lakeside Valley returned home exhausted at promptly, 12:00 p.m.

You know the missing kids that end up on the side milk cartons, well Rebecca was one of those kids. After numerous search parties, S.W.A.T teams, helicopters, and manhunts, she was forgotten and lost. It was a hopeless cause. Until, all the sudden the local newspaper ran a front page story that said, “Breaking News: Tween, Helen Baker Abducted by Aliens!” Again just as it was before Helen was with her Dad walking her dog, in the soybean fields. Now that two people had gone missing everyone thought that the soybean fields were jinxed. The police taped off the scene and there was an investigation. They were unable to find anything. Desperation and despair began to sink in, as it seemed to be another fruitless mission.

A week later...

It’s a rainy morning at the edge of Lakeside Valley and elderly Mrs. McGuire woke up to make her usual morning breakfast, which was toast. She grabbed her cane and slowly walked down the stairs to her kitchen. When she walked by the window covered by droplets from the early downpour, she stopped abruptly. In the windows was a small little person, well not the person, but a silhouette. She immediately grabbed her house phone and dialed 911 frantically. But it was too late, when police arrived the silhouette was gone! “It was alien-like,” Mrs. McGuire said to the chief policeman of Lakeside Valley. So the neighborhood committee set up the neighborhood watch signs at every neighborhood in Lakeside Valley.

They thought that they were prepared, but nothing ever occurred until thirty years later when everyone had forgotten about the soybean fields, abductions, and aliens. An old farmer was watching around the soybean fields and there he found a middle aged woman in tattered clothes whimpering, crying, and holding a shriveled green thing. She appeared malnourished and frail. Her only words were, “abducted, abducted.”