“These aren't the droids you're looking for.”
Waldo* #quote
Today I counted my trading game cards to make sure I had a playing deck of sixty.
Counting trading cards is probably a bit different than counting
other kinds of cards. Anyway onto the flash fiction!
Alice In Boringland
Once long ago lived a cute, pleasant girl named Alice. During one
day she caught sight of a white rabbit that looked quite strange in
the fact that it looked so strangely bored. Most rabbits hopped and
skipped and the little thing just took it's four legs and boringly
wandered on the grass. Curious Alice followed the white rabbit all
the way the rabbit's hole that could oddly fit a girl her size too.
When the rabbit hopped in bored she jumped in with further curiosity
and wondered why there would be such a hole so big.
In a flash of blue light she was magically transported to the
rabbit's true home. A special, mystical land that went on forever.
The ground was flat, gray marble and she could only see the blank
blue of the sky in every direction except for a single sign. A sign
that said “Welcome to Boringland.” Well, she also saw the rabbit
at her feet.
But after a second the rabbit spoke to her in a squeaky voice,
“Little girl I just can't handle having fun. Being bored makes me
happy. And if I stay with a child like you something interesting may
happen and that would be just dreadful.” The rabbit darted into the
distance, swerving left and right so that Alice couldn't tell where
it had gone. Alice spun in her old fashioned dress. She couldn't even
see an exit to the place. Only the sign.
Boringland didn't affect her for quite some time though. She sung
and danced. Thought of funny jokes and explored her imagination.
What's so wrong with being bored and nothing around? She thought to
herself.
But then after many hours the true problems of Boringland set in.
She wondered about her parents. All her family and friends. Her home.
And how to get back to it. She became quite frightened when she
realized she wandered far enough to lose track of even the sign. She
could see nothing at all but herself.
“Rabbit! White rabbit! Show me the way home! Please! I'm very
frightened! Help!” She yelled and screamed. Screamed as much as she
could. “Show me the rabbit hole home!”
The rabbit appeared in front of her. “I knew you would have caused
some excitement. All that yelling. Follow me and don't do anything.”
She followed the rabbit loyally for hours. Eventually she arrived at
a hole.
The white rabbit looked at her. “This hole will take you home.”
“Thank you, thank you Mr. White Rabbit!” She began crawling into
the hole. “Mr. Rabbit, why did you come around my garden earlier
today?”
The rabbit yawned as he yearned more boredom. “I owed a favor to
your guardian angel who wanted to teach you a lesson after you threw
that tantrum yesterday and said you didn't want to be with your
family anymore.”
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