The hand had become too rotten and smelly after the ice in the cooler melted, so T-bag tossed it in to a dumpster where it landed with a dull thud. T-bag then swaggered off clutching his stump, mumbling something about Thailand.

The hand lay in the dumpster for a full day and a night.
But then on Halloween night there was a full moon. The light from the full moon shining down on the hand made it stir to life. It climbed out of the dumpster and scurried away into the night. The hand was a new kind of beast with a thirst for flesh. It felt the need to tear, to shred. It's first night of life it took a street person.
The man was sleeping alone, when the hand fell upon his neck sinking it's rotted nails in and tearing the very life from the poor soul. The next night it found an open window. And climbing through the window it found a sleeping child. The parents found her bloody remains splattered across her sheets the next morning. The hand was sneaky, but left behind a smell that puzzled the authorities.
The police began to secretly call the 'killer' the smell of death killer. The hand slept in small places during the day and hunted by night, feeding it's thirst.

When the hand awoke on the third night of it's existence it scurried into a sewage drain. It swam along doing it's own version of the doggie paddle with it's decaying fingers in the rancid waters.
When it finally made it's way to a pipe, it crawled up the pipe and into a toilet. It then eased itself up the side of the toilet and down to the furry pink rug surrounding the toilet. It then scurried around the side of the door leaving the blue water from the toilet in it's wake.

Nika was sleeping soundly when she felt the cold waxy fingers crawl on to her bare skin. The smell coming from her unwanted bed fellow
was enough to make her gag. She felt it's digits starting to sink in to her neck.
Thinking fast, Nika grabbed the hand before it got a good grip and threw it hard against the wall. She then stood up on her bed looking for the creature who had invaded her sleep. She scanned the area, but didn't see the hand. Was it under the bed? She wondered trying to remain calm. She was afraid to jump down from her bed to find out.