The Moon Beast

John was a good man, he was honest and upright. His patience got tested over and over again. Rumors started to spread that John would turn into a totally different person at night when the moon came out. One of his lady friends told a local reporter that he would turn into a beast. 

“It’s like he has split personalities,” she said.

All the while, whatever was going on at 57 Northwest Blvd. at night started to make heads turn. Multiple reports of werewolf sightings hit the mainstream news in locations where John was spotted at night. 

“I blame his wife and his mother. I think they pushed him to his limit,” one of the local store owners explained.

“He was nice until everyone kept taking him as a joke and I think he just snapped,” his best friend explained.

Either way, people started coming up missing.

“He would often talk about Egypt and how every culture stole their customs. I even heard that he believed that he was a god himself. The man was strange,” his neighbor said.

“So why do you think no one has seen him out and about?”The reporter asked.

“It’s because he knows what we’re saying about him. If you were being blamed for sucking the blood out of innocent people, would you show your face?” His cousin said.

Either way, John was the new top story. The man that was a humble servant of God in the day but a moon beast at night. Sitting in the crowd, he was spotted at a presidential debate. As soon as the cameraman spotted him they saw his eyes turn yellow when one of the candidates mentioned increasing taxes and that’s when it happened. Everyone witnessed what they all assumed. John turned into the Moon Beast and devoured the blood and flesh of everyone at the debate. 

No science could explain what triggered John’s inner beast, but with the potential leaders of the free world now gone the man who was half man, half beast now ruled the world. A new species of mankind now howled at the moon at night transforming the world’s people into moon beast.

The Moon Beast

The Moon Queen

 “I’m starting to like criminals,” the Moon Queen said sitting on her throne.

“Why?” Her servant asked.

“Because when I bring justice to our land, they will bring the termites to me when I’m ready to cleanse the night sky with their blood.”

She had now gotten her servant’s attention.

“What?”

“I have received word that my creatures of the night are migrating into the day. This has displeased our lord of the day. He has decreased my glow; therefore, I have been summoned to balance things out,” the Moon Queen replied.

Her servant Squire entered the room, “Here she is your highness. A lady of the night.”

“What is your report?”

“I have been sold over and over again as a sex slave. I’ve been raped, drugged, and beaten lifeless by strong mighty men, only to be left for dead, brought back to life only to be drugged again. My children have all been sacrificed to the God Moloch. Every deity I’ve cried to has shown me no mercy your highness. I beg you, please help me. I have prayed for a hero,” Lilly, the lady of the night said.

This angered the Moon Queen, standing tall from her throne, her black garments began to glow with rage.

“Servants of the night, gather our weapons of war, it is time for us to cleanse the night sky. Prepare for mass executions,” the Moon Queen said.

The moon soon turned bloody red as the creatures of the night began to howl.

“Who is brave enough that they will crucify my ladies of the night, but will not bow to the Christ in repentance? The man has spread the earth with carnage so too shall I. I will raise the dead and they too will be my army!” The Moon Queen shouted gravitating from the moon down to the earth. A foggy mist soon covered the dark earth as the planets blocked the Sun’s light. Screaming could be heard as the dead began to feed off of the living. 

“These are the creatures that failed to honor the oath of God, show them no mercy,” the Moon Queen commanded.

Flashes of light were seen in the night sky as war gods were unleashed. Exchangers of drugs and feeble corrupt judges were seen from afar begging for mercy.

“Off with their heads, then feed the remainder of their lifeless flesh to the wolves.” The Moon Queen declared.

As the creatures of the day sat idle hiding in their homes they began to scream for help.

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God have mercy.

They prayed for the sun, but the Moon Queen’s wrath spilled on the earth for forty days and forty nights because they too were punished for not being brave enough to keep the night creatures away from the day. Once her wrath was over and Lilly, the lady of the night, gave birth to twin virgins, the Moon Queen took this as a gift from the Goddess of the day.

“Halt! The bond has been restored. The earth’s night is quiet and cleansed. We can return home now,” the Moon Queen said ordering all of her troops home. At this moment the twin virgins were given names. One was called Day and one was called Night. 

“People of earth, if any man on this planet destroys these two gifts from the heavens, then I will return with eternal darkness,” the Moon Queen said.

The people of the day soon got word that their prayers had been answered. They came out to witness the beauty of the sun, for which they had not seen in a while. Night and Day took their place amongst the people, never to be neglected like their mother. With permission from the Christ they gave mankind a rainbow in the sky.

The Moon Queen was pleased.

The Moon Queen

Moon University

 “Class, my question for you is does the moon exist if we have never been there?” Professor Rock asked dismissing his class.

This was their assignment, but something more was going on in the minds of the students at Moon University. Rob, a chemistry major started specializing in rebellious studies. He became so obsessed with finding ways to get the human mind to rebel that he started using his classmates as subjects. Rob’s plan was to create real world problems by exposing how the university was spending its money and once he got ahold of a camera and a website his work began to take shape. His first story released was a report on how there were so many students struggling to make ends meet and he also reported data of how many graduates had no jobs after college. Every week Rob would report real campus stories on his website and he remained anonymous. 

“Good day class, today our project will be focusing on a mission to the moon,” Professor Rock said noticing chatter among his students.

“Is there a problem?” He asked politely.

Sharon, who read Rob’s articles almost daily couldn’t help but question her professor.

“If time on earth is different then time on the moon should we be wasting our time trying to achieve your goals or ours Sir?”

This caused an uproar in Professor Rock’s class.

“It is my job to teach, I have no alternative goal. May I ask what has sparked your question?” Professor Rock responded.

“I bring up my theory of opportunity cost. If I am in your class every day at a price couldn’t I spend my own time building my own spaceship to the moon?” Sharon said causing a stir in the class.

“What is your name?”

“Sharon, Sir.”

She got Professor Rock’s full attention.

“What is knowledge to you Sharon? Why do we call you all students?” Professor Rock asked.

“Is that a trick question Sir?” Sharon responded.

“Sharon, no one forced you to sign up for Moon University did they? You came here to learn, you’re using your time wisely. If you want to live in a world with no education the door is open. Go and try to reach the depths of space on your own. I’m not forcing you to do anything. I’m not forcing any of you.”

After Professor Rock made his point a number of students walked out with Sharon to protest for student jobs while Professor Rock continued to teach.

“Now class, I must make this point, some of you will make it out of here with your degree and some of you will be like Sharon trying to spend the rest of your life proving people like me wrong. It’s your choice.” He explained continuing his lesson. 

Shortly after, a burning rock came flying through his classroom window while Sharon and her rebellious classmates began to riot and protest, witnessing the outrage, Professor Rock and his class fled to safety.

Chaos soon filled the campus and riot police were everywhere trying to calm students down.

Rob’s website soon became filled with information and his master plan to inflict the student body with news that would give the students leverage over the university began to take shape and Rob was yet to reveal his identity. Sharon, who was now a product of Rob’s social experiment took to the bullhorn.

“My fellow classmates of Moon University. We will be the students who demand payment for our hard work. We will not starve while learning like other university students. I have been informed that once we get what we want, we will rebuild this university with our paid labor that we fought for.” At this moment Sharon began to lay out her plan for the entire student body, but some students got violent and started dragging other students out of their classrooms to make sure that nothing on campus could be accomplished without the students. This caused the National Guard to be called because people were now in danger and Sharon’s protest was not considered peaceful.

Rob on the other hand began to record everything and post campus footage on his website. The entire college riot began to spread across other universities causing a wave of protests. Even as students began to get hurt Rob never thought that his experiment was getting out of hand until he got hit with a flying bat trying to interview a student faculty member.

The riots caused so much damage that Moon University had to shutdown and no one could afford to clean up the mess but the government. Taxpayers soon demanded a return on their investment and Sharon and her followers never got what they demanded. In the end, most of the faculty at Moon University found themselves unemployed and had to find jobs somewhere else. After Rob got hit with the bat and spent about a year in recovery nothing more got published on his website because his brain damage was so severe that he could no longer use his hands.

Professor Rock never saw the product of his class goals at Moon University, but he did publish a book about his experience at the school. The first chapter of his book showed a picture of him on the moon with another class from another university explaining how they pulled it off and for some odd reason he never mentioned anything about the class that failed. The booked was a best seller focusing on constructive thinking and how if rebellious thinkers used their energy to build up instead of tearing down then the world would be able to reach its fullest potential. Professor Rock used the proceeds from his book to rebuild Moon University and at the end of his journey he found Sharon to adhere to her demands. His first sentence when he saw her was, “Together we can use our time to make the world better, apart we can use our time to divide it. It is God who gives us that choice.”

Now living in poverty with an enormous amount of bills and debt, Sharon and Professor Rock began to rebuild. It took her 30 years to learn Professor Rock’s first lesson, just imagine if she hadn’t wasted the time trying to prove him wrong. The lesson was learned and now a new chapter of Moon University began.

Moon University 

The Wolves & the Moon

I heard a voice in my head guiding me. I didn’t know which way to turn. It was like I was a sheep being led into the night jungle.

“Don’t be afraid,” the voice said as I witnessed wolves howling at the night moon.

They had control of everything, they drugged me, my mother, my father and my entire family.

This was their product, grown and transported in the night. 

They were white people, black people, in the form of all races of human beings and there I stood as a little innocent child standing in the middle of this madness.

Therefore, I was a victim.

I could smell the funk of flesh being torn apart in the night. Their music played through the airwaves and their women stripped naked on the computer screens. There was no innocents as they blended in with society stealing souls and everyone became consumers.

They even got involved in politics, spreading their philosophies of manipulation across the globe. I watched them blend in daily feasting off of the flesh of fickle sheep. One after another rising to power.

In the night, I combed my way through the madness only to flee to safety in the day.

They were everywhere and I could not hide but I refused to consume their products. 

They killed everything that I loved. Seeing the sun rise, I ran to the top of the mountain to hide.

I waited patiently for God to tell me what to do next.

I was a sheep dressed in black and they were wolves in sheep clothing. Their true nature came out with the moon in the night.

They were clever creatures.

The Wolves & the Moon

The Moon Soap Opera

“I love you Brianna. I always have and always will,” John said.

“I wish I had time, but I’m tired of the back and forth John,” Brianna replied turning a cold shoulder to John.

“Brianna wait. Please, just give me a chance to explain. Those feelings I had for Vikki are gone, I’ve always loved you.”

Brianna turns around slowly.

“Really John?”

“Yes, do you remember in art class when we painted a picture of the neon moon, I still have that picture. Brianna, you have always been the one I love. Now stay, put your things back in the room,” John says looking into Brianna’s eyes.

“What about Vikki? You can’t have both of us at the same time.”

John grabs Brianna’s hand, but she pulls away.

“We’ve had our time, I’ve heard you apologize over and over again. This has to end,” Brianna says walking out.

“Brianna wait,” John shouts, but she had already made her way out the door. As John began to chase her down the apartment complex hallway, she couldn’t help but speak her mind.

“John, stop it! I’ve always been your second call girl and I’m tired of your games. I saw you and Vikki together kissing yesterday so why do you keep bothering me? What do want from me John?” 

At that moment, Brianna got inside of the elevator and John felt his heart drop. He leaned on the wall of his fifth floor apartment complex and took a good look at the moon out of a nearby window.

“I’m sorry Brianna, I’m sorry.”

The Moon Soap Opera

The Craters on the Moon

I cheated death over a thousand times. Black people were killing each other, white people were killing each other, people of all races creeds and colors were killing each other. Then the medical bills for mom started coming, they never stopped, collection agencies soon followed. Churches soon shutdown because everyone’s ten percent went to the drug man, the cigarette man, and the beer man. So there I stood in the back yard building a spaceship. I had to find a new world. Bursting into outer space I miraculously landed on the moon. No one would have ever imagined that the craters had just enough food and air for one lonely soul to live the rest of his life in peace. I got my wish upon a star.

The Craters on the Moon

The Moon Strike

 “Little Star, why don’t I get the same attention as the sun? I deserve equal pay and attention just as much as her. If people don’t appreciate my glow, then I’m going dark, I’m going on strike,” the Moon said to Little Star.

“Moon, you’re just as important as all of us, without you, we stars won’t get a break and the people and creatures of the night will not have a guiding light to get through the evening,” Little Star explained encouraging her Moon friend to keep glowing and to stay on the job.

“You’re right Little Star, tell the universal captain that I’m good, I’m with the team, if we’ve been at it for this long, then why stop now?” The Moon said as all of the stars and planets kept their orbit.

“That’s it old friend, I got your back, I know how you feel,” one of Saturn’s moons said from afar.

“We don’t get the same glory as the sun brother, but we have to keep these gears turning. At least we’re not like the humans, they kill each other when they don’t get their way. Keep it up friend. Do it for the love of the galaxy, the black hole supervisors are watching.”

After seeing all of the planets, moons and stars come together to encourage him the moon dusted himself off and stayed in orbit. It was all good.

The Moon Deal

 If the sun were to shine 24 hours a day I don’t think the world would have enough time to cool off. I’m pretty sure that’s why God threw in the moon as a bargain deal just so we would have enough light to guide us through the darkness of night. That’s a good deal, it even glows so it can’t just be randomly there. I assume like everything else it has to have a purpose.

The Moon Deal