Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26834926-20160104223547

You’re in bed. Reading by your nightlight, a copy of Alice In Wonderland in hand. It’s been used and some of the pages have been scribbled on and slightly torn at the edges, typical of the books mom buys you from the local bookstore. You are reading aloud the ending, when Alice wakes up in her sister's lap.



“‘Wake up, Alice dear!’” You say, pronouncing the words of the dialogue carefully.

“‘Oh, I’ve had such a curious dream!’”

“‘It was a curious dream, dear, certainly: but now run to your tea. It's getting late.’”

You’re about to close the book. Pleased that you were able to read it off by yourself, But something doesn't seem quite right.

Opening the book once again, you notice there’s an extra page stuck to the back cover.

You hesitate for a moment. You have read this tale many times, but did not recall there being more to the ending. Waving it off as bad memory, you carefully unstick the mysterious page and continue.

<span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The paper is completely blank. No picture, no page number, nothing. Except for one simple line of text in the middle.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“‘Before you go Alice,’” You say, announcing the sentence.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“‘you still have to WAKE UP.’” The last two words being capitalized.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">That is the end, and nothing more.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Being slightly disappointed, you close the book in your lap to reveal the cover of Alice jumping down the rabbit hole, accompanied by the big curvature of text spelling out the title. At least, that’s what you expected to see. The image has completely changed. The cover; now with the picture of an oddly carved grave with Alice's name on it, and an obscure, eerie looking forest in the background. The title, seemingly being handwritten, untidily spells out the words; ‘WAKE UP’.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">You know something has gone terribly wrong, this should not be there. You look up toward your unlatched door to call for your mother, but to what should have been slightly ajar, is now wide open. You look around your murky room that's illuminated by the moonlight, to see if someone has entered. Someone has been in your presence without you noticing, and has written something on the farthest end of the room. Just like the book, it spelled out three messily written words; ‘WAKE UP ALICE’. <ac_metadata title="Wake Up Alice (Needs Feedback &amp; Help please!)"> </ac_metadata>