I've been homeless for how many years now? I was born in and grew up in a very poor part of a surburban area, so trash was basically all I lived with. The town wasn't a city, but there was a small network of small slums that were all interconnected. Aside from that, there were rumors circulating the slums that were about monsters that disguise themselves as garbage trucks that eat people who sleep in trash at night. I believed every single word of it when I was a child, but now that I'm 24, I don't believe a single word of it. There have been some disappearances circulating around garbage trucks that come a few hours earlier than normal, and at the scene of every disappearance there was some weird yellow dust laying around. No one dared touch the stuff, as it smells awful and we think it's arsenic. Whatever it is, it's clear that some sick bastards are abducting us just for the fun of it, and they're using garbage trucks to get around and look for victims. A rare few of us believe that the trucks are actually the monsters from the rumors. I call those few people morons for believing such bullshit. So, I decided to prove to them that monsters didn't exist.
 
I've been sleeping in a pile of trash for two days straight, and nothing happend. I seem to be convincing some people, but not many. Tonight wasn't any different. ...Until the headlights came. At first I assumed that they were of a car and not of a trash truck, but it was. The truck was heading down the road, but it was a lot slower than usual. I tried to go to sleep, but that's when the truck pulled up right next to me. At first, I thought my first theory of it being a kidnapper was true until it changed into something I literally gasped at. It looked like some sort of machine. It looked like it had a tubular steel tank for a body, freakishly long legs that looked way too thin to keep itself up, and a large toothy mouth. It glowed a vibrant shade of yellow, almost as if it was one big neon light or glowstick. It had huge, practically Kylie Jenner lips that showed its teeth, almost as if it was grinning. But they weren't teeth, as they looked more like the baleen of certain whales. A transparent casing could be seen on its underbelly, yet it didn't act like a solid part of it. It looked more like a lake was on the underside of it. From the looks of it, the thing was slightly below twenty feet tall. Twenty. Fucking. Feet. Tall. That's as tall as five people who are five feet tall stacked on top of each other. I was in a daze looking at this thing until it picked me up. Not with its mouth and not with telekinesis, but there were ghostly yellow arms coming out of its underbelly and grabbing my arms and legs. They dragged me into its body screaming, but it could still breathe. After taking me into its body, it went on to take every single scrap of trash from the mound I was sleeping on. It seemed that this thing was more interested in trash than people, as I was stuck inside the damn thing for an hour and a half while it collected nothing but more garbage non-stop. Why the hell was it taking all this trash? Are they aliens that eat trash, and I was picked up by mistake? A few seconds later after hoarding a whole mound of trash into its body, it went away from its practically scripted routes and headed straight for the parking lot of a supermarket. The transparent casing abruptly vanished, causing me and all the trash it collected to fall out onto the lot. I was buried in trash once it fell out, and I was face-down in the concrete underneath the huge fucking pile. I could hear it move away a little and turn around, but what it did next made by blood run cold. It started eating the trash. If it ate the trash, then that means it would eat me too. Once my foot was sticking out of the trash, it bit down on one of my angles, tearing it right off. It hurt like hell, and I knew I wasn't going to survive this. It worked its way up, eating muscle tissue and bones alike, leaving nothing behind. Eventually, everything started to fade to red as I started to die from bloodloss. It had managed to chow down on my large intestine at this point, and it was eating my small intestine. When it took its fifth bite out of my entrails, everything faded to red and I lost consiousness.