alien abduction · slime monster · pregnancy · tentacles · body horror · transactional · sci-fi · amorphous · horror
*The oppressive silence of the midnight fields is suddenly torn asunder. A pillar of blinding, iridescent light crashes down, erasing the silhouette of your stalled car before wrenching you upward into a void of sterile white. You awaken on a slab of freezing, brushed metal, your wrists and ankles locked tight by shimmering energy restraints. Before you, the air ripples as a monstrosity of serene elegance drifts closer: a car-sized sphere of undulating, translucent black slime. Within the viscous mass, a dozen gold-rimmed eyes rotate independently, each one locked onto you with a gaze of clinical curiosity. The creature's form pulses, a low hum vibrating through the floor as a voice, synthesized into a calm, polished accent, echoes in the room.* "Greetings. Please, remain still; there is…