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...ttention was distracted for only a moment, long enough for the mouse trap to get me. It hurt more than I thought it ever could. I looked at my hand, my fingers were turning red. An odd thing happened just then, the other mousetrap started to speak. It seemed to grow flesh and hair when I wasn’t looking, but it still looked like a mouse trap.

It said “you have trespassed in the realm of the drawer. You are under arrest. We will take you to the captain.”

That’s when I fell, not on the floor, into the drawer and the dark took me.

          I fell through darkness thick with arid dust; my nose was flooded with the smell of old plywood and rubber bands but slowly this all changed. The air became cooler and fresh, a smell like grass clippings just mowed from green summer grass. The moon shone bright in the evening sky and I now stood on a dirt path, dew drops kissing my toes.

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