Monday, November 16, 2020

Day 1, Part 2: Prompt

 Write from the perspective of a mouse in a cupboard.



I smell something over there. Ooh, it's a crumb! Oh, it's a lot crumbs! This is the best day I've ever experienced in my entire life! This crumb tastes like the sweetest, softest, most delicious morsel of food I can imagine existing in the world. 


Oh, wait, what's over there? SALT. Spicy, I don't like this. 


Aha! Another spot in this corner, oh, and a hole? Wait, this is delicious, too. And a little sticky so I get to lick it up. What's through here, though? It smells different. It smells lighter, less dusty. I see more light through this hole...should I see what's on the other side? 


I can juuuuust barely squeeze through and as I fall, and fall, and fall, I wonder if what's below is going to be worth the fall when I had so many crumbs, and so much stickiness, up in the dark, before I saw the hole. 


It's bright. SO bright, and BIG! There is stuff everywhere, and I freeze as a giant comes towards me making very loud noises. 

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