Layla Pace received the phone call she never wanted to get at 11:30 am on Tuesday .
'He told ," Layla thought
but remembered Denny really had nothing to tell
To Denny it was an Entity.
As far as Layla knew the Operating Tele-Presence only 'came to her son 'as something supernatural not technological .
Denny spoke about what he called "Mandlers" less and less
but often seemed more and more scared.
Bags under the 8 year old's eyes
An expression on the 8 year old's face
that seemed both too distant and too right here simultaneously .
The only time she now heard Denny laugh was when he was alone in his room
but she knew he was never really alone.
He wasn't hers anymore Layla thought
She used to like to think of herself as the type of mother who never thought of a child as there's
as owning the child
but this was before her son was owned by the Tele -Presence
Owned by The TruGenic Rational Research Laboratory
She knew she should have kept Denny home from school .Denny had struck a student
According to the school secretary the boy Denny hit was fine .
The vice principal had taken Denny out of class.
Could she come to the school and pick him up
The vice principal wanted to speak to her .
She should have known to keep him home today.
All the previous evening Denny had been doing 'that thing he does".
Over ride
Layla called "it"
by now she had so many words for things that should not even have names .
Denny on 'over ride' by Mandlers
stamping around the house like a man 3 times his age telling Layla what changes needed to be made around the house
how she should dress
how she should cook ,clean and spend her afternoons
Never did Denny call her "Mom "when his Operators ,his "Entity" decided to take steer him in this way
Not a trace of her son seemed to exist when "Mandlers" wanted to have some fun at his and her expense .
Layla pictured the man in the trailer that shot the bio tech into Denny's arm
Pictured the man inside her son via BrainLink laughing likea lunatic
Layla pictured the awful man in trailer 2 or someone like him sitting at some kind of DJ booth ,some air traffic control room his skull sprinkled with bio sensors
a headset
a helmet - wires everywhere.
.linking the "Mandlers" brainwaves to her son
Layla saw the Mandlers as she presumed anyone might
who had only seen films about this technology
all blinking lights and clean lines..
all comic book villains and handsome leads
but those awful trailers were not so futuristic
and that horrible man was no Matinee Idol
Layla pictured that awful man
leaned over a console
great Karnak Circus Psychic broad gestures
finger tips to temples
temples covered with wires ,sensors
all focused thoughts
to the crystal ball of computer screens filled with images and words and sound decoding Denny's every breath ,touch ,smell ,taste ,heartbeat ,blink
The researchers..whatever you call "them" hovered around the picnic of 'Brain Map' watching Denny watch the world
the men who tricked her into thinking it was therapy -next
threatening her and her son
"IF you tell "
Mandlers Denny called "Them"
but Layla was not allowed to call "them ' anything ,not really and not ever
'Entities" was OK to say aloud
How careful she had to be since taking Denny home from the trailer ..the drug quickly fading to "help him forget"
Careful to never call the voices Denny heard or the things he saw anything but aliens
Aliens Denny was never to speak of -to anybody
The researchers said she could never seek treatment for Denny
He would have to be taught to 'get used to it'
"If Denny is put on any mind medication he will become useless to the studies and useless subjects walking around with OUR technology are a liability"
The Men in Black Slacks told her it might be a very good idea for Layla to join Neuronautics
so if "anything went wrong" she would have religion to -fall back on
There were speical schools
Layla refused.
Driving to the school Layla thought of Denny as he was last night
not Denny at all
but some type of sick toy for Remote Neural Monitors
using her son as a human drone
She pictured these 'Mandlers'
hyped up on coffee and God knows what else
turning knobs that turned on and off the tiny chips in her son'sbrain and brain stem
Watching computer screens that saw all Denny saw
Listening to speakers that played back all Denny heard
deciding they were bored
deciding "this " was not what they signed up for
either
It wasn't often they did
whatever
-they do
to augment another so completely
Layla could not to even afford to let herself conjure up the where for all least of it the technology to completely over ride another's very being
usually Denny was just made to see things and hear things
and practice thinking back "the right way"
This ,Denny was allowed to share with her
the first week Denny told her he needed a comfortable chair and a partitioned area of his room to sit at that faced a large bright white empty tacked linen
to learn how to think in thought pictures
to Them
the "Them" Layla was and would always need to be a different THEM than it was to Denny
her them were mere men
who had promised to cure Denny of Autism
at the Trugenic Rational Laboratory
the "Them" for Denny could only be thought of as supernatural
-
or else
The previous night had started off well enough
Denny sat in front of his white linen
doing whatever one does thought Layla to practice thinking to others
since being "app-ed' for interface Denny wore his school uniform after school and until bedtime
Layla never asked if it was the Mandlers who demanded he be buttoned up in suit jacket and tie even on weekends
After Denny's practice time learning how to think thought to anotherhe and Layla ate dinner
small talk about school.
Denny had in fact become better at this kind of talk
since being 'Mandled"
and sometimes Layla thought what the researchers told her about conditioning Denny through the Tele-Presence to stop thinking inward but out was not a trick .Not a con job.
A fly appeared near her water glass and Layla picked up the newspaper and swatted it
Denny screamed
"are you crazy!" Denny said ,"Do you think for one moment YOU are more advanced than an insect...when was the last time YOOOOOOOU were able to think for a larger collective ..work for a larger purpose ..nah nah not Layla Pace "
Denny's entire face contorted to that of a much older person
wearing some too tight ,too small mask of little boy
His way of moving and speaking changed
It was terrifying
but what was more terrifying was that Layla had gotten used to it
What was different this time was that she herself had "set the Mandlers off'
Usually this "ove rride' occurred spontaneously
or as spontaneously as men manning another could be who decided to skip the brain computer interface for a while and just take the bio tech out for a test drive around the block
only the tires the researchers were kicking were her son's neurons and synapses
sometimes when the Mandlers made her son their avatar
Layla could not help blame Denny for thinking to the Mandlers the wrong type of things or that Denny had started to bore them with his thoughts
or had done something to trigger the Mandlers to want to shut him down completely his use now only kicks.
it never lasted longer than 45 minutes but the things that could be said by Denny...by Mandlers through Denny in that short time could sometimes devastate Layla for weeks after .
Denny picked up the dead fly and opened the screen door ,even the sound of him opening the door sounded like the movement of an adult not a child -
every move he made
from pulling back his chair to setting down his water
sounded somehow like a man 's not a boy's.
Denny began loosening his tie but not as one would a child but as one would a 30 year old sick of work,sick of ties and sick of whomever he lived with
"Funny Layla that you kill flies that you'll raise your hand to do ...but you won't lift a finger to clean up this dump properly "
Denny looked at Layla and went into the other room where Layla heard a candy dish be thrown .
Layla followed her son who yelled at her for not keeping liquor in the house watching Denny light a cigarette .Cigarettes Denny demanded she get last time he "left the building"
Layla watched her 8 year old grimacing at her ,puffing on a cigarette inspecting the fireplace mantle on tip toes with his finger
'What do you do all day Layla ? You certainly don't clean ...Everything with you is half assed ..no wonder Patrick left you"
Patrick ,Denny's father did not leave her she left him but Layla never said much of anything when Denny "became " whatever one calls a child possessed by Remote Neural Monitors
Layla tried not to stare at "him" or look away knowing by now nothing made "Denny' or more to the point Denny's operators
more angry than Layla "playing for the camera'
-playing for the screen or whatever it was that re-pixilated Denny's vision into image
Layla watched Denny plop down on the sofa and look at her "What you always standing around for ...I thought you told Dr Freidman that men have a way of making you feel like you're always under their foot ..like they won something ...holding their prize down under them with one hand in their air...Sister you ain't no prize ."
Layla wondered how Denny's "team" of Operating Tele- Presence knew about what she said in private to Dr. Friedman .
"Sit down Layla ,' Denny said ,'You must be exhausted whining on the phone all day about the opportunities you squandered during your marriage ...your mother was right that Layla blames everyone but herself for her circumstance ...even as a child..You're sister you know just last week for the first time didn't "oh Mom 'her..no this time she recalled an event concerning a certain incident with a bracelet of hers you broke but never owned up to . I guess even Joan is tired of the Layla Pace Blame Parade "
"Enough !," Layla yelled at this thing in front of her that only resembled her son
.
Layla got up from the sofa and began walking to the kitchen not wanting Denny's Mandlers to see her starting to sob.
"Mom ," she heard Denny say .,'Why are you crying ?"
'He told ," Layla thought
but remembered Denny really had nothing to tell
To Denny it was an Entity.
As far as Layla knew the Operating Tele-Presence only 'came to her son 'as something supernatural not technological .
Denny spoke about what he called "Mandlers" less and less
but often seemed more and more scared.
Bags under the 8 year old's eyes
An expression on the 8 year old's face
that seemed both too distant and too right here simultaneously .
The only time she now heard Denny laugh was when he was alone in his room
but she knew he was never really alone.
He wasn't hers anymore Layla thought
She used to like to think of herself as the type of mother who never thought of a child as there's
as owning the child
but this was before her son was owned by the Tele -Presence
Owned by The TruGenic Rational Research Laboratory
She knew she should have kept Denny home from school .Denny had struck a student
According to the school secretary the boy Denny hit was fine .
The vice principal had taken Denny out of class.
Could she come to the school and pick him up
The vice principal wanted to speak to her .
She should have known to keep him home today.
All the previous evening Denny had been doing 'that thing he does".
Over ride
Layla called "it"
by now she had so many words for things that should not even have names .
Denny on 'over ride' by Mandlers
stamping around the house like a man 3 times his age telling Layla what changes needed to be made around the house
how she should dress
how she should cook ,clean and spend her afternoons
Never did Denny call her "Mom "when his Operators ,his "Entity" decided to take steer him in this way
Not a trace of her son seemed to exist when "Mandlers" wanted to have some fun at his and her expense .
Layla pictured the man in the trailer that shot the bio tech into Denny's arm
Pictured the man inside her son via BrainLink laughing likea lunatic
Layla pictured the awful man in trailer 2 or someone like him sitting at some kind of DJ booth ,some air traffic control room his skull sprinkled with bio sensors
a headset
a helmet - wires everywhere.
.linking the "Mandlers" brainwaves to her son
Layla saw the Mandlers as she presumed anyone might
who had only seen films about this technology
all blinking lights and clean lines..
all comic book villains and handsome leads
but those awful trailers were not so futuristic
and that horrible man was no Matinee Idol
Layla pictured that awful man
leaned over a console
great Karnak Circus Psychic broad gestures
finger tips to temples
temples covered with wires ,sensors
all focused thoughts
to the crystal ball of computer screens filled with images and words and sound decoding Denny's every breath ,touch ,smell ,taste ,heartbeat ,blink
The researchers..whatever you call "them" hovered around the picnic of 'Brain Map' watching Denny watch the world
the men who tricked her into thinking it was therapy -next
threatening her and her son
"IF you tell "
Mandlers Denny called "Them"
but Layla was not allowed to call "them ' anything ,not really and not ever
'Entities" was OK to say aloud
How careful she had to be since taking Denny home from the trailer ..the drug quickly fading to "help him forget"
Careful to never call the voices Denny heard or the things he saw anything but aliens
Aliens Denny was never to speak of -to anybody
The researchers said she could never seek treatment for Denny
He would have to be taught to 'get used to it'
"If Denny is put on any mind medication he will become useless to the studies and useless subjects walking around with OUR technology are a liability"
The Men in Black Slacks told her it might be a very good idea for Layla to join Neuronautics
so if "anything went wrong" she would have religion to -fall back on
There were speical schools
Layla refused.
Driving to the school Layla thought of Denny as he was last night
not Denny at all
but some type of sick toy for Remote Neural Monitors
using her son as a human drone
She pictured these 'Mandlers'
hyped up on coffee and God knows what else
turning knobs that turned on and off the tiny chips in her son'sbrain and brain stem
Watching computer screens that saw all Denny saw
Listening to speakers that played back all Denny heard
deciding they were bored
deciding "this " was not what they signed up for
either
It wasn't often they did
whatever
-they do
to augment another so completely
Layla could not to even afford to let herself conjure up the where for all least of it the technology to completely over ride another's very being
usually Denny was just made to see things and hear things
and practice thinking back "the right way"
This ,Denny was allowed to share with her
the first week Denny told her he needed a comfortable chair and a partitioned area of his room to sit at that faced a large bright white empty tacked linen
to learn how to think in thought pictures
to Them
the "Them" Layla was and would always need to be a different THEM than it was to Denny
her them were mere men
who had promised to cure Denny of Autism
at the Trugenic Rational Laboratory
the "Them" for Denny could only be thought of as supernatural
-
or else
The previous night had started off well enough
Denny sat in front of his white linen
doing whatever one does thought Layla to practice thinking to others
since being "app-ed' for interface Denny wore his school uniform after school and until bedtime
Layla never asked if it was the Mandlers who demanded he be buttoned up in suit jacket and tie even on weekends
small talk about school.
Denny had in fact become better at this kind of talk
since being 'Mandled"
and sometimes Layla thought what the researchers told her about conditioning Denny through the Tele-Presence to stop thinking inward but out was not a trick .Not a con job.
A fly appeared near her water glass and Layla picked up the newspaper and swatted it
Denny screamed
"are you crazy!" Denny said ,"Do you think for one moment YOU are more advanced than an insect...when was the last time YOOOOOOOU were able to think for a larger collective ..work for a larger purpose ..nah nah not Layla Pace "
Denny's entire face contorted to that of a much older person
wearing some too tight ,too small mask of little boy
His way of moving and speaking changed
It was terrifying
but what was more terrifying was that Layla had gotten used to it
What was different this time was that she herself had "set the Mandlers off'
Usually this "ove rride' occurred spontaneously
or as spontaneously as men manning another could be who decided to skip the brain computer interface for a while and just take the bio tech out for a test drive around the block
only the tires the researchers were kicking were her son's neurons and synapses
sometimes when the Mandlers made her son their avatar
Layla could not help blame Denny for thinking to the Mandlers the wrong type of things or that Denny had started to bore them with his thoughts
or had done something to trigger the Mandlers to want to shut him down completely his use now only kicks.
it never lasted longer than 45 minutes but the things that could be said by Denny...by Mandlers through Denny in that short time could sometimes devastate Layla for weeks after .
Denny picked up the dead fly and opened the screen door ,even the sound of him opening the door sounded like the movement of an adult not a child -
every move he made
from pulling back his chair to setting down his water
sounded somehow like a man 's not a boy's.
Denny began loosening his tie but not as one would a child but as one would a 30 year old sick of work,sick of ties and sick of whomever he lived with
"Funny Layla that you kill flies that you'll raise your hand to do ...but you won't lift a finger to clean up this dump properly "
Denny looked at Layla and went into the other room where Layla heard a candy dish be thrown .
Layla followed her son who yelled at her for not keeping liquor in the house watching Denny light a cigarette .Cigarettes Denny demanded she get last time he "left the building"
Layla watched her 8 year old grimacing at her ,puffing on a cigarette inspecting the fireplace mantle on tip toes with his finger
'What do you do all day Layla ? You certainly don't clean ...Everything with you is half assed ..no wonder Patrick left you"
Patrick ,Denny's father did not leave her she left him but Layla never said much of anything when Denny "became " whatever one calls a child possessed by Remote Neural Monitors
Layla tried not to stare at "him" or look away knowing by now nothing made "Denny' or more to the point Denny's operators
more angry than Layla "playing for the camera'
-playing for the screen or whatever it was that re-pixilated Denny's vision into image
Layla watched Denny plop down on the sofa and look at her "What you always standing around for ...I thought you told Dr Freidman that men have a way of making you feel like you're always under their foot ..like they won something ...holding their prize down under them with one hand in their air...Sister you ain't no prize ."
Layla wondered how Denny's "team" of Operating Tele- Presence knew about what she said in private to Dr. Friedman .
"Sit down Layla ,' Denny said ,'You must be exhausted whining on the phone all day about the opportunities you squandered during your marriage ...your mother was right that Layla blames everyone but herself for her circumstance ...even as a child..You're sister you know just last week for the first time didn't "oh Mom 'her..no this time she recalled an event concerning a certain incident with a bracelet of hers you broke but never owned up to . I guess even Joan is tired of the Layla Pace Blame Parade "
"Enough !," Layla yelled at this thing in front of her that only resembled her son
.
Layla got up from the sofa and began walking to the kitchen not wanting Denny's Mandlers to see her starting to sob.
"Mom ," she heard Denny say .,'Why are you crying ?"
"According to the vice principal Denny he struck Andrew Pettison with a yardstick because an alien Entity told him to.
According to Mr' Phillips ,the social worker who spoke with him after the event Denny revealed to him that he was half boy half alien since birth born only to be a soldier for the the cause of cleansing the world of bad celestial forces .
According to this alien Entity Your son says often comes to him as Aimien Little from "The Big Littles" movies all men ,women and some ,not all household pets are alien hybrids but only some are called to be in alien armies .Denny speculated to our social worker that he either assumes or was told telepathically- he does not remember -that some boys and girls are spoken to telepathically by bad aliens and his Occipital Overlay made him see Andrew Pettison as he really is- a dark celestial alien . A Latch Upon to be more precise .'
When Mr.Phillips asked Denny what this Occipital Overlay that indicated Andrew Pattison was a "bad alien" looked like Denny told Mr.Phillips ,"types like you wouldn't know a dime from a donut" curious words for a year old boy to say to grown up don;t you think Mrs. Pace?" Jennifer Sands ,vice principal of Leaflet Elementary School said ,"curious too the words Occipital Overide to describe his hallucinations..."
According to Mr' Phillips ,the social worker who spoke with him after the event Denny revealed to him that he was half boy half alien since birth born only to be a soldier for the the cause of cleansing the world of bad celestial forces .
According to this alien Entity Your son says often comes to him as Aimien Little from "The Big Littles" movies all men ,women and some ,not all household pets are alien hybrids but only some are called to be in alien armies .Denny speculated to our social worker that he either assumes or was told telepathically- he does not remember -that some boys and girls are spoken to telepathically by bad aliens and his Occipital Overlay made him see Andrew Pettison as he really is- a dark celestial alien . A Latch Upon to be more precise .'
When Mr.Phillips asked Denny what this Occipital Overlay that indicated Andrew Pattison was a "bad alien" looked like Denny told Mr.Phillips ,"types like you wouldn't know a dime from a donut" curious words for a year old boy to say to grown up don;t you think Mrs. Pace?" Jennifer Sands ,vice principal of Leaflet Elementary School said ,"curious too the words Occipital Overide to describe his hallucinations..."
"I heard nothing to indicate Denny is hallucinating Mrs.Sands,"Layla Pace said.
Mrs. Sands put on her reading glasses and read from a file ,"A good Jew would have killed themselves already not written stories to make a joke out of it..We can't microwave your insides because you refused to give up smoking..it would look like natural causes..murder would look like you matter in some way..the Japanese you know during world war 2 would volunteer to be suicide bombers..Denny Pace asked if the boy had been let be by the Latch Upons and that he 'd like to gauge a reading of the boy's Eminations to see if the thrashing had riled up the Enrot in Andrew Pettison that had probably been in the boy's degenerate lineage for centuries ..Mrs .Pace I see here you're divorced .Did your ex-husband strike Denny ?"
"No", Mrs. Pace said
"Does your husband make a habit of talking about degenerate linage "
Mrs .Pace shook her head no wishing this woman would just give her Denny to take home. The Andrew Pettsion boy she was told was fine .
Mrs Sands read from the file folder
Mrs Sands read from the file folder
"Since the world first began alien beings have used man as vessels .Some men and women house good alien entities and some very bad entities According to Mr Phillips Denny said "The Entity that lives through me and I through it stated that It was not important I be told the long history of from which planet or universe or dimension the good or bad entities which latch upon man have come from.All that matters is my link with the entity help me identify the bad entities hiding in men ." Mrs.Sands said looked up at Layla
"When Mr Phillips asked Denny how he could identify the bad aliens hiding with in men or in this case a 8 year old boy Mrs.pace ..he said the aliens make him see things nobody else can ..He said he saw atop Andrew Pettison 's face -the face of a Latch Upon ...so indeed Mrs. Pace your son does in fact seem be hallucinating and therefore might be better helped at a different school
"Surely Mrs. Sands you have had other children fight before in this school...and as you said the Pettison boy is fine " Mrs Pace said ,"Other children who have struck someone have not been asked to leave the school."
'No they have not ..children act out all the time but the reasons for acting out do not seem to stem from psychiatric problems"
' You said -seem to -stem ...and that Denny -seems- to hallucinate ,"Mrs. Pace said ,"To you this might -seem like -some kind of psychiatric disorder but Denny and I both practicing Neuronautts do not -seem to - believe quite in your particular belief system ...Do I -seem to- hear you correctly that Denny is being asked to leave the school on the grounds of his religious beliefs Mrs.Sands because I think a lawyer might -seem- to think we have a pretty good case against this school
"When Mr Phillips asked Denny how he could identify the bad aliens hiding with in men or in this case a 8 year old boy Mrs.pace ..he said the aliens make him see things nobody else can ..He said he saw atop Andrew Pettison 's face -the face of a Latch Upon ...so indeed Mrs. Pace your son does in fact seem be hallucinating and therefore might be better helped at a different school
"Surely Mrs. Sands you have had other children fight before in this school...and as you said the Pettison boy is fine " Mrs Pace said ,"Other children who have struck someone have not been asked to leave the school."
'No they have not ..children act out all the time but the reasons for acting out do not seem to stem from psychiatric problems"
' You said -seem to -stem ...and that Denny -seems- to hallucinate ,"Mrs. Pace said ,"To you this might -seem like -some kind of psychiatric disorder but Denny and I both practicing Neuronautts do not -seem to - believe quite in your particular belief system ...Do I -seem to- hear you correctly that Denny is being asked to leave the school on the grounds of his religious beliefs Mrs.Sands because I think a lawyer might -seem- to think we have a pretty good case against this school
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