'Twas a bright and sunny day outside, but
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'Twas a bright and sunny day outside, but inside the mind of Lyra Burns, things were much different.
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In Lyra's mind, it was storming. Thunder shook the earth and lightning strobed across the dark sky. Rain pounded down from the dark grey sky. Then reality struck as she gazed out
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At herself being introspective on the field of battle. She had to alert herself that she’d been enchanted by the glamour into it’s thrall. She kept pinching herself & asking hersel
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f,is there really no place like home? But there wasn't & she wished she'd never clacked her ruby slippers together.The dowdy simple minded folk of Kansas made her long for munchkin
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s. "Dorothy, I'm worried about you. You've not been the same since that tornado." Dorothy stared up from her body cast: "What makes you say that, my pretty..I mean Aunt Em?" "Well,
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ever since you came back, you haven't eaten any sweets like you usually do. Tell me the truth, did something happen during the tornado, was it the scarecrow?" For a second it looke
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d like she registered acknowledgement. It faded just as fast from her face. She looked down at the floor at her feet where once two red, sparkling shoes once were. Her head felt fo
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forward as she collapsed, her life force slowly leaving her. She desperately tried to talk, but no sound could come out. Her tears started flowing just before it all ended for her.
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"There's no place like home", she muttered. A cool cloth of her head. "There's no place like..." She opened her eyes and there her beloved family stood, all around her. "I had a
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dream that you guys all disappeared, and I was left in a strange new world." "We're here now," her family assured her, "and we'll make sure you're always kept at home."
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- Started
- 2018-05-05 13:31:23
- Finished
- 2018-06-23 09:23:50
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PurpleProf Jun 23 2018 @ 09:56
OK, I would just like to once again point out the magic of FoldingStory. I had no idea at all of the Wizard of Oz storyline prior to Jerry's fold! Great minds, SlimWhitman...?? Or have you somehow taken over my mind?
PurpleProf Jun 23 2018 @ 09:58
I also like the sinister overtone of wirth_poet's ending.
SlimWhitman Jun 25 2018 @ 14:25
It is interesting how the Wizard of Oz, gradually disappears along with her memories of the place, only to make a furious comeback in the last folds. Re. great minds, I think of it as a great gestalt mind, perhaps with Wizard, and we folder's are but Munchkins knee-deep among the peonies.
IceSquad Jun 26 2018 @ 08:03
While we're on the subject of great minds, I'll note It's also interesting how Det. Manatee found his way back into the Dr. Derriere story.