This choice: "How do you turn this thing off...?" • Go Back...Chapter #14Tiny little man on sale, get one for only $5.99! by: sneakyk   "How do you turn this thing off?" The cashier mutters. Evidently he hasn't yet realized you're alive, as opposed to being some sort of highly advance toy. You can't exactly blame him, as you haven't spoken a word to him yet. Before you can speak he seizes his fingertips firmly around your body and begins mashing them roughly around you. His huge digits drag along your tiny form as he fruitlessly searches for some way to "turn you off." As his mashing continues unabated you begin to thrash about in his clutches, agitating the man. "Come on, there has to be a switch somewhere!" He replies, irked by your increased struggles. He presses his digits around your upper body particularly forcefully, wondering if he can turn this curious plaything off by squeezing it. Your struggles begin to slow to a halt, but the man's grip around your body doesn't abate. Between his firm grip and the fact that half the time his finger are mashing around your head, you have no way to breathe. After about two minutes of this, you pass out.
The cashier finally relents his grip on the tiny plaything and realizes that it has stopped moving. He feels a nagging concern about what he just did. Is it possible that this was a live human being that he just killed? No, it couldn't possibly be. Shrinking is impossible. It must be some sort of toy. Besides, the little thing didn't make any real attempt at communicating with him. Even if it were a person, he doubts that what he just did would have killed it. It would be enough to knock a man unconscious, sure, but not enough to kill. He silently weighs his options. He can't just keep it indefinitely, nor can he just crush it flat. It could belong to the store and he would rather not mishandle store goods. He also has a lingering concern that this may well be a tiny human being. After a few minutes of pondering he comes to a conclusion. He knows exactly what to do with this little toy.
You wake up from this nightmare with a start, panting in and out frantically, desperate for air. To your relief you find that you can once more breathe air. Precious, precious air. What a horrifying dream...reducing yourself to the size of a bug, abandoning your normal life, and ultimately getting suffocated between a pair of fingertips. You breathe a sigh of relief knowing that it was all that...just a dream. Or you think it was. As you slowly regain your waking composure and your mind gradually recovers from the fog of being half asleep, it dawns on you that not all of that was a dream. Actually, only the 'suffocated' part was false. You get to your feet and fearfully search your new surroundings. You can see transparent walls in front of you, beneath you , above you, and to your left and right. Curiously, the transparent ceiling overhead bares a hole roughly the size of your head, though you have no viable way of reaching it even if you were small enough to slip through. has a hole. In stark contrast to the transparent walls all around you, the wall behind you is opaque, and quite colorful at that.
As you adjust to your surroundings you catch a glimpse of the world outside of your cell.....and realize that you are inside of a toy package high off of the ground at the supermarket. But why...
Oh no. Oh NO. You've just been placed on sale! You begin swearing and smacking at the walls around you, yet they don't budge. You sigh and begin closely examining your surroundings to get a better idea for where you are  | Members who added to this interactive story also contributed to these: |
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