Goliath

He came into this world weighting 14 pounds, measuring about 24 inches. They said that when he came out from between the legs of his mother, a woman that did not measure a centimeter above 4 feet, the doctor said with horror that he looked like a heavy ball of coal. Upon laying eyes on him his father, that had planned to call him after his own father, was left speechless. He then reached out to a bible he had taken with him to bless his child, and decided to call him the first name he'd find. Randomly flicking the pages he encountered "David" but stayed muted. Instead, without raising his eyes, he loudly said "Goliath" to the nurse.

As a child, when his family sat around the television in the living room, he would sit in a corner and get lost in the shadows. His formative years were not the best. Standing a whole foot above his classmates many epithets were screamed mocking his gargantuan body. In order to fit in, he attempted to hunch his body to the size of those around him. The results were for the worse, his body kept growing at an alarming rate, and then he was not only of enormous size, but the hunch on this back was nearly the size of another child. A normal one.

Some say he never quite grew up. While his body kept stretching to the heavens, in his eyes it could still be found the soul of a child. It is speculated that so is the reason why his voice never developed, it remained effeminate, with sudden breaks into higher notes, until the day he ceased to be. By the time he was 24 he decided to stop speaking. A couple of years before he had managed to quit hearing. The words that made reference to his monstrosity where now an unrecognizable whispers. Eventually he even stopped responding to his own name.

He first got involved in a fist fight early in His adulthood. Prior to that event no living member of the creation had attempted to get physically involved with Him. Sitting in a bar stall, a stranger tried to sit on His lap. The man claimed to had not seen Him, but as the room filled with laughter, His fists made an appearance. After that, people made a conscious attempt to no longer direct words towards the creature. In fact, as He carried His weight down the streets, people would avert their eyes and pretend to not see Him.

It was a June 7th, on His mother's birthday, that He finally lost His family. As they gathered around the dining room table to sing, His mother insisted that they wait on him. The creature sat still on His favorite chair right beside the table. A wooden chair that underneath Him looked as if it was made for a child but that happened to be of a normal size. After His family waited for hours for His arrival, they sang and left.

It was exactly 2 weeks after that, when He first encountered a mirror in His adult life, that He noticed the faded color on His skin. He no longer looked like coal, but like burned coal. The image that the mirror showed made Him for the first time in years say His own name. He did not speak it, but screamed in such terrifying manner, that parts of the roof of the house collapsed over its power. The people in the house woke up afraid, and as the eldest of the brothers started checking the rooms of their home he encounter the lifeless carcass of his mother under a solid piece of concrete.

Whether it was caused by the image He saw on the mirror, or the one on the living room floor, it is not known, what is known is that armed with a machete He exited the house uttering words no one could comprehend. The movements from the arms and legs were disjointed and uneven. There was no sense or rhythm, but as His feet moved recklessly about the street a police car appeared at the scene. The lone officer, David Martinez, was a rookie 6 months out of the academy. His small and fragile body covered in his pale skin gave him the appearance of a dead man. As the creature approached him, moving as a furious shadow, the terrified young man raised his gun and with shaking hands pulled the trigger. It lit on fire and the people on the street gathered around It as if It was something they had encountered for the first time in their lives.

The young man collapsed after the encounter. He woke about a week later in a mental institution, and later hung himself from his balcony with his black shoe laces. It is said that in his final days, he whispered the name of the creature under his breath, wide eyed into a mirror.