Jon pointed the device at his mother and pressed "activate". The world suddenly changed around him. There was an awful, sickening, smell. Flies buzzed around him and he felt weak. Trying to get up he couldn't even stand. His mother was barely skin and bones and her leg had rotted away from untreated gangrene. Something soft moved beneath him, which he then realized it was the lower half of a dead infant being jostled out of its position, releasig more of that ghastly odor. They all had numbers tattooed on their arms like pieces of equipment with serial numbers... Jon would have vomited if there had been food in his stomach.
Karyn was nearby, lying on the ground, as skeletal as she could be and still be alive, and motionless. A shovel was lying near her hands and she had collapsed in a partly dug pit.
Then a moment later a man walked by. He was healthy, and well-dressed... if wearing a Nazi SS uniform was well-dressed. The man gave Karyn a kick and then shot both Karyn and Jon's mother in the head. They screamed tired screams and writhed in agony as they died. The man grinned and gave a salute to a picture of a mustached man on the wall....
"I wish this nightmare was over," said Jon.
"I'm going to destroy it," said Jon to Karyn. "Silly me, I thought that that meant being embarassed at school, or at worst breaking a leg or being turned into a statue. It never occurred to me that Mom's nightmare wouldn't be something out of a comic strip. I just wanted excitement, I didn't really want Mom's worst nightmare... Karyn, I wish this machine would turn into dust."
The machine disintegrated into a fine powder, much like that found in a crematorium. Perhaps Jon even learned something.
