#18:Medok
The Macra Terror (1967
ILLUSTRATION BY BEN MORRIS
I’ve seen them! With my own eyes! Last night, a horrible creature in the darkness… The Macra!
You don’t believe me. Of course you don’t. You think that just because everyone in the colony has perfect health, undemanding jobs, motivational jingles and endless free makeovers, massages and talent contests they’re happy. Well, they are happy. Idyllically so. But they are wrong to be happy. Because I know the truth. Oh yes.
The people in charge, they tell us what to do! They watch us when we are sleeping and brainwash us into obedience. But who are they really working for? And why?
You may ask how I know that the creatures are called Macra. Well, after my first sighting, I was grabbed by Ola and his guards and taken for questioning by the Pilot. They led me into his office, where he was sitting at his desk. As Ola and his guards left, the Pilot looked up and gave me a sympathetic smile.
“Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear,” he said.