October 4, 2018.

SPOOKTOBER STORY #4:

Neil Young’s hat shivers in quiet ecstacy, feasting upon his brain. It rocks gently back and forth, letting its long, needle-like teeth sink further into his skull, the thick, muscular tube of its tongue rolling gray matter up through its core. Neil Young doesn’t love getting his brain sucked out by his hat, but over the years he’s gotten used to it. The first few days after are always foggy and confused, but something that the hat does regenerates the missing brain parts, so really it’s just an inconvenience. And anyway, the quiet wet rhythm of the tongue’s peristalsis is the perfect tempo for him to play “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” which is nice. Neil Young sighs and lays back, waiting for the fog to come, nodding off to the steady sounds of slurping.