Mattress
The mattress (sky blue chintz, with yellow filigrees) is covered with long, yawning gashes. As you study them, you remember how they got there.
You produce a pearl handled knife from your pocket and run it slowly along one of the last unblemished areas on the mattress, opening up a thin breach in the material. The chintz gives way with a sigh you can just hear beneath the child's wall-rattling howls, and - yes, there's another sound, like that of glass breaking, but slowed. Glancing at the window, you see a long crack in it to match the one in the mattress.
Encouraged, you grab each side of the tear and rip heartily. The material opens up on - well, it's best not to study the stuffing of the mattress. (It's not springs. It's not cotton.)
But the window opens, too, a nice puckered breach just wide enough to admit your body. As it will, just as soon as you...
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"I love this story- any path I choose makes me laugh about something or other."
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"Strange"
Just Chatting "This is such a sad story!"
Just Chatting "How do I hook up with those lezzers on the right."
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"FYI - edit is available to the posts's author for 1 hour after a post is made, UNLESS someone's already branched it. If that's already happened, you're out of luck. ;)"
Just Chatting "It's a good thing there's an edit button then, Radlord (it appears on the top right but does not appear if there are any branches leading off of your post)"
Just Chatting "I may need an edit button soon, lest I make even more of an arse of myself with my awful spelling and typing."
Just Chatting "Hmm, those super long song lyrics with no punctuation are foiling my random excerpter. I'll have to do a little tweaking there. :)"
Just Chatting "you see the child smile for the first time*"
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