Saturday Matinee - Atlantis

 

 

I remember the first time it happened....no I wasn't there, but the news programs all covered the strange phenomena.....many commentators scoffed claiming that it must have been some kind of ruse or advertising stunt.....but as the search for the bodies continued it seems as though it was far more serious than that!!!

 

Just another day at the beach for Ron Swiddell and his girlfriend....catch some sun...relax....enjoy the pretty girls in their little bathing suits....perfect beach day....

And then they heard a commotion down by the water....

The Robie brothers....Mike and Stuart....hadn't really planned on going to the beach today but when Mike's plans to see his girlfriend fell through...they just grabbed their towels and headed out....relaxing on the beach and cracking open a beer as discretely as they could....didn't want any troubles with the Beach patrol after all....then they were startled by what they saw....

Anton Lamoire and his wife were tourists....and they marveled at the difference between this beach and the beaches back home on the Mediterranean coast....these Americans were so uptight. Not a bare bottom or breast in sight....that was until they looked toward the surf...

Tony Bonetti took advantage of a rare day off to take his wife and kids to the beach as he had been promising for half the summer....his kids were busy building sand castles and he and his wife were enjoying some time for themselves...all too rare in their hard working lives....when his wife pointed out something happening at the waters edge...

The five women emerged from the ocean....completely naked....no one had seen them swimming....they seemed to just appear from the surf....an initial commotion suddenly quieted to deathly silence as the five scanned the crowd....

Finally one stepped forward and announced...

"We have come as representatives of our civilization....the world that some of you have named Atlantis although it's true name is unpronounceable in any surface language....we have come to seek men to return with us to enjoy passionate pleasures with us....we will care for you and take you into our bosom....we wish to bring strong virile men who can enjoy the sensual pleasures of many women in a day...."

When the beach goers remained still and silent her voice turned harsher...

"Make no mistake....we have asked nicely but we will leave here with what we came for!!!"

She nodded to the other four naked beauties and they moved into the crowd....each of them selecting one man....the five men....Ron Swiddell and the others were taken by the hand without saying a word and led back to the surf....the wives and kids were all screaming...but the men never turned their heads and never hesitated as they walked into the ocean and disappeared beneath the waves...

It was as if a spell was broken on the others at the beach and women screamed as men rushed to the waters edge....the lifeguards all grabbed their paddle boards and dashed out into the waves....the Beach Patrol rolled their vehicles and moved everyone back from the waters edge....within minutes their were helicopters over the area...

No bodies were found....

The next day at a beach several hundred miles south the exact same thing occurred...five naked women took five men into the water....

It happened again and again....and again....

Task forces were formed and armed sharpshooters were stationed at beaches up and down the coast.....strangely there were no pictures....the people there said they didn't know why they didn't take pictures....they just didn't....

Speculation ran high about a suicide cult....or some kind of drug....or even space aliens....but I didn't believe any of them....until....

I had taken to going by the local beach during off times or in bad weather when they were deserted....I would go to the waters edge and implore them to come and talk to me....

Late one rainy night....as I was about to leave I saw the waters ripple and a figure came toward me in the dark....

"Why do you call to us?"

Her voice was beautiful....alluring....I started to move toward her but somehow I held myself back...

"I want to know why you are taking the men..."

"We take them because it is the time....we must have them...."

"What do you mean....why must you have them?"

"It is the time....for our race to continue we must have them...."

"You need them to...breed?"
"If that is how you understand it....we just know it as the time...."

"But why take our men....surely your own men  would be more....compatible..."

"We have no men in  our world....men do not exist...."

"Then all the men you've taken....what's happened to them?"

"They are men no more!"

"You mean you've killed them?"

"Do you think us to be cruel like you land dwellers....they live still and will live longer and better lives with us...."

"But you said they are no more!!!"

"I said that they are men no more....after living with us for a time they change...they become like us...."

"What do you mean....they....they become women...like you?"

"Of course....the magic of our world only permits the men to exist during the time...and after they've contributed their seed they become like us....it is the way of us....as it has always been...."

"And how much longer is the time going to last?"

"It is over....many of us have new life already growing within us...."

"Could you take me...."

"I see in your heart that you would become an ideal sister among us....but the time is past....perhaps when it comes again we will seek you out...."

"And then she was gone....under the water to a world I can only dream of....that's why I live here on the beach....that's why I gave up everything to live this life of a beachcomber....I want to be close when the time comes you see!"

The small group who had sat listening to him spin his tale laughed and got up and left...

"Can you believe that bullshit story....what a crazy old coot!!!"

On the radio there was a news bulletin about some kind of mass drowning at a  beach nearby involving naked women....the authorities were investigating....

They looked at each other and turned the car around and drove back to that old shack on that lonely beach....but there was no one there....and the footprints leading to the water were being washed away by the waves...