Good luck in the challenge.

Well I must say you captured the postwar cold war psychosis quite brilliantly.

Very fun writing Tara I think that this was probably a boilerplate for all the B-movie scripts and I love the B-horror and Science Fiction movies Remember 'Them'?

Outstanding writing Tara. God Bless.

made me think of "Jaws" as so long ago it showed still the ocean does swim and outer space might be you never know who you might meet warm hugs, Linda Kaye

You nailed this, right down to the theramin music! I love old B-movies and quite a few newer B-movies, too...including the titular It Came From Outer Space, complete with highly advanced alien critter thingies that look as if they were made out of cellophane. Where would B-movies of a particular era be without cellophane?! If it was a one-eyed monster, that was even better. And then there's the Cold-War era paranoia/subtext, usually involving atomic weapons, well...one atomic weapon, generally depicted in multiple flicks by the same stock footage of an atomic test either above ground or out at sea. Ah...Wonderful! Your pacing of this is brilliant and so spot-on, and it made me think of all of those wonderful childhood moments watching It Came From Outer Space and Invaders from Mars and The Blob, and then there were lesser known gems like Attack of the Monolith Monsters about...get this...rocks that threatened the world! I'm not quite certain, but I think it was water that saved the day in that one. And on the flipside of those, there were the smarter flicks like Invasion of the Bodysnatchers which spawned a whole franchise of remakes, the best of which is the one with Donald Sutherland, Leonard Nimoy, Veronica Cartwright, and a very young, very skinny Jeff Goldblum! The original, however, was just as brilliant "They're here...!" That set the tone for so many movies, and then there's the brilliant The Thing, which also spawned something of a remake/prequel franchise with 1980s style and 2000s style gore effects and fantastic soundtracks! No theramins though. Bummer. I like this quite a lot! Thanks for the flashback to the era of the one-eyed cellophane monster, or the alien with the oversized brain and a rather conspicuous zipper. I love the title art as well. That's so perfectly done! Oh, and just because nobody asked, here is my list of favorite B-movies: It Came from Outer Space Ray Bradbury wrote the storyline/script for that one, I think. Invaders from Mars Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original and FIRST remake...the remakes of the remakes weren't necessary, even if one of them did feature predatory spaghetti.) Them! The Blob The Creature from the Black Lagoon Attack of the Saucer Men Reptilicus And if you're looking at the '80s, the whole B-movie alien invader thing was pretty much over, but there were still brilliant classics such as: Battle Beyond the Stars a personal favorite with a brilliant James Horner score. Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, which was just an odd foray into murky 3D and Molly Ringwald's first film, and a hokey Elmer Bernstein score. I love the idea that some of the mutants in the movie came about because of a typo in the order sent to the costume department. Originally, the costume department was supposed to design costumes for Bat People, but because of the typo, the costume department designed prosthetic bodies of rather stunningly complex grotesqueness, because the head of the department read "fat people" rather than "bat people", and this led to the creation of a new set, complete with an ingenious method of Rubinesque mutant transportation...basically snot-tubes. My favorite scene in THAT movie actually involves the cannibalistic, rotund, "naked" mutants who also happen to make some of the creepiest sounds to ever come out of a Grade-B 3D space opera! Brilliant stuff...different from the "Classical Period" of 1950s - 1960s B-Grade, but a fun romp nonetheless. I love this!

After reading Chip's grand tour of his favorite B Movies, I find myself thinking about why those B Movies did so well...the drive-in movie crowd loved this stuff. After all, something was needed in the background while necking or for the less fortunate trying to keep 3-4 little kids semi-quiet while fiddling with that big, oversized speaker box hung on the driver's side window. Great writing job amping up the suspense and getting me to once again feel all of the emotions generated by old movies back-in-the-day;-) I vote for a sequel!!!

Love it, Tara! Oh, those childhood memories about watching these campy old B movies - I still love the hoaky SFX they used - I think that's what made those movies!

Brilliant! What a gift you have !

Still having bad dreams? No more spicy food for you before bed! Excellent descriptive language and pacing. Love the artwork. Not that old but when I was a boy they were still playing movies from the thirties on tv. Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon were my early influences. From those to Avatar, its all just a variation on a theme but always fun. Of course, in Avatar WE are the space monsters. Good luck.

Lovely job Tara, strangely this old classic B was on the TV only last night on the sci fi channel :)

Excellent expressiveness and imagery! It definitely makes ones hairs stand on edge and even gave me goosebumps. You captured the subject perfectly and the repetition on various stanza's is just perfect as it adds just enough emphasis to create suspense and thrill! It's awesome!

Awesome, Tara. You are good :-D

Wonderful writing!!! You had my heart beating fast LOL!

Fantastic Good luck in the challenge Hugs Susan~

Great writing...good luck

Fun vertical poetry & I like the Twilight Zone style graphic too. I loved those movies as a kid & remember all the ones Chip mentioned fondly. I could add a lot more, but will only mention Amazon Women On The Moon, which was an 80's spoof of 50's scifi movies that contained a lot of funny skits (& a few not so funny ones)...

Oh, how nice it is. I thank you for it. 5+!!

I agree with Chipka (first lines) :)

Yeah, what will be in part two ? I love the tension in your writing. (Don't know if 'tension' is the right word. The anxious that becomes bigger, by reading is well structured, Tara. Wishing you luck!!!