July 27, 2016

I was wondering why we kept going up and down the escalators in the subway but it turned out that some of them passed through more than one floor so there were situations where the fastest way to go up a level was to go down first. I realized that I had forgotten something so we went back up to the vending machine on the surface. There was a dog waiting for me and someone told me that it seemed to be suffering from malnutrition. The robot wanted to be a part of the competition but it was in no way fit for the aerobics contest without training.

This is where we realized something was wrong on our journey. We traced back our path on the satellite map until we saw that we had passed by a fake farm. The corn was planted in concrete and what made it even more suspicious was that the land had already changed. “Someone is hiding there” someone concluded.

We found the hole under the bridge and the boy revealed himself. “The one marked by the Raven is the next to die” he announced before throwing out a card. It flew in an arc before hitting my mother and cast a shadow of a bird onto the wall next to us. He doused my mother in gasoline before lighting himself on fire. “Give me a hug!” he commanded. My brother and I violently disposed of our old friend before cracking open his head which was filled with rainbow (literally) coleslaw. It was like a paper cabbage where each layer was a different color in a bowl. “When do we tell his parents about this?” I asked. “In three weeks. They can’t cancel his return flight yet” my brother replied. As I continued to turn the rainbow insides in front of me I commented on how it became prettier over time. My brother asked me if I knew anything about the new F-Zero game.

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I had just gotten back to campus and we were on our Monday schedules. My first class was Intro Chem where I sat in the middle of the first row. I was teleporting around to different places including a bathhouse.

When I woke up on the floor outside, I found out that it was already 4 in the afternoon. I grabbed the first person I saw and asked what had happened in a panic. He told me that it was Friday and that today’s “Monday” classes were in fact optional since not all the students were back on campus yet. Tomorrow was going to be the same thing with “Tuesday” classes.