What would you do if you woke up in a story? What would you do if one day, you climbed out of bed to find that your whole world was something different and that the things you'd always been certain about were now as clear as mud? Suppose you woke up to find that the ceiling was where the floor should be and the floor was where the ceiling should have been and instead of falling down, things fell up. Suppose that after discovering that your world had turned upside-down (quite literally), you found that when you tried to walk, your feet wouldn't touch anything solid, so that you were walking on air. After all of this strangeness, someone suddenly appears before you and hands you a jar filled with what look like glass marbles and tell you that if you don't keep the jar of marbles with you at all times, it's very likely that you'll shrink away into nothingness. Then just as quickly as they came, they've gone. Now here you are in an upside-down world, walking on air and holding a jar of glass marbles so that you won't shrink and shrink and shrink until you disappear. This is quite a predicament, wouldn't you say?
So imagine that everything I've mentioned thus far has happened. You walk out onto your street (with the jar, of course) and see that nothing is quite the same, though it all seems completely normal in your mind. Though you can plainly see that people are walking with hats on their elbows and whistling backwards (don't ask me how to do that), it only seems slightly off. Suddenly, you realize what's been making the world act so strangely today. You quickly make your way to the nearest post office, only to find that they've run out of the type of light bulb that you need. No matter! Heading just as quickly to the park (this time doing cartwheels, though you've never been that agile before) you find that they have exactly what you are looking for at the top of the slide. The only problem is that this is a very steep slide and it has no ladder, so after making your way up (this is surprisingly easy, even to the point where for the most part, you're just walking normally, though the slide is almost at a 90 degree slope) you find what it is that you need. This turns out to be a very goopy looking orange slime. Seeing nothing else to carry the slime in, you begin piling it into the jar of marbles until it's completely full of this marble-slime mixture.
You slide back down the slide (backwards, while sitting on the jar) and have run half skip to the candy store where you trade the jar of marble-goo for your pillow (which you lost at the beginning of the story, but I forgot to mention that). With the jar of marbles gone, you begin to rapidly shrink and just before you've disappeared, you manage to sit down comfortably on the pillow. In the next second, poof, you're gone.
Several minutes later, your eyes flutter open to see that everything is back like it should be.
Wouldn't that be something???
~Rachel
