Just My Imagination - Musings Of A Child by Mystery





Imagination can be a very powerful thing. This is a tale of one little girl's imagination getting the best of her.

"Mommy, will you play with me?" Jenny asks, tugging at her mommy's skirt as she hands the freshly washed laundry on the line.

"I'm sorry, dear. I really need to get this done. Why don't you use your imagination," her mother suggests affectionately and returns to pinning a shirt to the line.

"What's 'magination, Mommy?" the little girls asks, again tugging on the long skirt worn by her mother.

"Jenny, please. Not right now," her mother scorns, as her face melts with tired lines and exhaustion.

The little girl grumbled to herself as she sulked away, down to the other end of the clothesline, away from her mother. " 'magination must be what kids get when Mommies and Daddies are too busy to play," she moaned, throwing herself to the ground just before her mother called out to her not to dirty her good dress.

Jenny thought to herself as she stared at the dirty ground, "I wonder what really lives in holes in the ground. Daddy said snakes and bunnies live there." Before she could give it a second though, the little girl noticed something sparkling within the small hole in the ground. "I bet that is pretty jewelry, " she blurted out in a hushed tone, " and if I gave it to Mommy, she'd be happy again. She is always happy when Daddy gives her jewelry."

She stuck her little fingers into the hole in the ground, where she saw the sparkle, but drew back when she felt a pinch on her pointy finger. Looking at her finger, she couldn't see anything wrong with it, but it looked like the sparkly thing was a little closer now. She leaned over and dug into the hole again.

For a moment Jenny felt very strange, "I feel like that time when I spun in circles like an airplane over and over again, and landed in Mrs. Hayes garden. She was really mad."

Before Jenny could steady herself the hole grew to three times her size. Or was it that she shrunk to three times smaller than the hole? In any event, she toppled over head first into the hole. Her tiny screams echoed through the darkness. Can you help Jenny get back home?


> l
You are in a dark tunnel that seems to have caved in when the little girl unexpectedly fell in. A pile of dirt indicates where the tunnel once was. A hole high above provides a tiny bit of light, but is far to high to climb back out. Also here is a small stick.

> get stick
You take the small stick.

> dig in dirt
You use the stick as a makeshift shovel and dig the passage out. The stick breaks and is no longer usable, so you toss it up out of the hole.

> s
You move south.
You are at the underground water way. There is a wooden spoon floating around in the water, that leads into darkness. Also here is a piece of dental floss and a small rock. Jenny follows you from the north.

> get all
You take the piece of dental floss and the small rock.

> tie string to rock
You wrap the floss around the rock and make a grappling rock.

> throw rock at spoon
You throw the grappling rock at the spoon and miss several times. One last try....and it land on the wooden spoon. You are then able to pull it near. It looks like there is just enough room for you and the little girl.

> climb onto spoon
You climb onto the spoon and carefully held the little girl on. She loses her balance and nearly falls in, kicking the rock into the dark water.

> s
You float down the water pipe until you reach your chambers. You jump off and help the little girl.

> l
Your chamber is small and filled with dried grass and a few nuts. There is one large nutshell here. Jenny is here, looking at you expectantly.

> x nutshell
It looks like a walnut shell. The nut shell is closed.

> open nutshell
You open the nut shell. A ring is inside the nut shell.

> get ring
You take the ring from the nut shell.

> give ring to jenny
You hand the little girl the ring and she exclaims in excitement, "Oh, thank you! Mommy will surely be happy now!" She removes the bow from her curly, blond hair and asks, "But how will I get back home?"

Before you are able to reply, you hear the sounds of her distraught mother. Just as quickly as the little girl fell into the hole, she vanishes into thin air as if nothing ever happened.

Was this all just in your imagination? Or was it in hers?



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