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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.
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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