First they said it was a lie; a made-up story for publicity. Then they said it was monkeys – monkeys! – escaped from a local circus and dressed in silvery clown outfits. When that finally couldn’t be proven, they said it was mass hysteria, attributable to their being women. June wasn’t quite aware yet to take proper offense to such a desperate and belittling insinuation, but one thing she knew for sure: it sure as hell wasn’t no damn monkeys.
- first paragraph from my first real-true short story, writ large nine years ago and still unpublished.
Extra Credit if you know what extranormal event from American mythos, circa 1955, my story elaborates upon ...
A hint, perhaps?
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