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"Stone Faced"

Being approached by someone emotionless makes our minds wander. Seeing their lack of reaction to anything we have to saw, one might believe they are depressed or are anti-social. Basically, expressionless people are like cans of soda, you can't see what it looks like inside, so you can only assume based on what the outside has to show.

The men came to the grocery store a few moments ago, all eyes glued to them. They appeared to be wearing some kind of grey Halloween masks of some ancient stone carvings. They looked almost like Easter Island heads but with a slightly, more grim expression.
As they made their way down each aisle, we would back away from them as they grunted to each other in some form of communication. We weren't too sure what they were doing there, nor who they were. My initial thought was that these were some high school kids pulling some joke on us. Perhaps they were recording our reactions to laugh at later.
When they got in line to check out, a few cans in each of their hands, there was a middle-aged lady that stood behind them. We weren't sure exactly what she was saying but we knew they two guys weren't too fond of it. They let out a high-pitched screeching sound and the lady's head burst like a watermelon. Many screams of the people standing by rang out through the store.
Plenty of people would try their hardest to avoid eye contact, as not to antagonize them. Their behavior was becoming erratic, some of them thought. They only assumption they would make was, these were not people in masks, they were some kind of creature.
After they left the grocery store, nobody really saw much of them. Some claimed they'd seen some flying lights zooming overhead at night. Others swore they saw them walking by their place at night. One thing is for certain, nobody knows quite what they were here for, nor what their intentions were.
Even still, some skeptics would come forward, saying they could have been regular people with masks. Perhaps the lady with the burst head was in on it, or perhaps they had access to some device that could explode a head at a specific frequency.
No matter what you choose to believe, they are out there somewhere. And one day, I intend to find them.

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