thetofunator

It starts with a gentle hiss in both ears. Soft at first, like a radio tuned to the wrong frequency. It gets louder and louder until all you can here is the roar of the sea, the cosmic waves on a TV set, the increasing cadence of your own heart. Then comes the prickling all over your body. It starts with an intermittent piercing pain in a few areas but it soon builds to a maddening crescendo. No area of your body is safe. The prickling knows where your most sensitive spots are and attacks them indiscriminately.  It is, if anything, a skilled torturer. Around the same time as the prickling comes the heat. Suddenly, white hot metal floods your