{"id":53,"date":"2013-05-12T14:40:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T18:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mainlyprompts.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2013-05-19T16:49:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T20:49:31","slug":"with-a-little-help-from-my-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mainlyprompts.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"With a Little Help from My Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

11-29-12\u00a0 Use this quote\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> \u201cIt is not down in any map.<\/span>
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I thought it was a gopher hole.\u00a0 More legs have been twisted and more horses put down because of gopher holes than I can possibly count.\u00a0 I stumbled forward, and stretched out my hands to catch myself and prevent serious damage.\u00a0 Oddly enough, there was nothing there to catch my fall.\u00a0 The forward momentum continued, and I was head over heels before I knew it.\u00a0 What the hell?<\/span><\/p>\n

The fall was much too long to be a normal trip.\u00a0 One second, one full and surprising second, was what it took.\u00a0 The thud at the bottom shook the wind out of me, and I gasped at the suddenness of it all.\u00a0 The first impression was the smell of warm damp earth.\u00a0 The second was of darkness.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t full darkness, as there was a small circle of light overhead. \u201cIt must be a hole I fell into,\u201d I thought.<\/span><\/p>\n

The third impression was of eyes.\u00a0 Lots of eyes. Mostly in pairs, but some in shocking ones and threes.\u00a0 As I sat up, the eyes resolved into little faces, moving forward out of the darkness to explore the intruder, me.\u00a0 They were faces of wonder, with little open mouths all going \u201cOhhhhh!\u201d\u00a0 The bodies were small and deformed to my eyes, but these little people had no problems with them at all.\u00a0 They crowded around me and chattered, touching my skin and clothing and plucking at me.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sweat began to pour off my brow as I wondered what I had gotten into.\u00a0 Where was I, who were they, and most of all, \u201cWhy me?\u201d\u00a0 One of the little people, for I thought of them immediately as at least humanoid, brought forth a cloth and wiped my brow as he stood on my knee.\u00a0 I smiled a perplexed, wondering smile, and he grimaced back at me, showing teeth and a hint of pointed tongue.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t the warm affectionate smile of my Love, but it welcomed me and bade me not to worry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another of the creatures came forward and chattered to me, cocking its head to the side and spreading its hands.\u00a0 I was being asked a question, but not having any experience such as this before, I could do nothing but shrug.\u00a0 The creature turned to the others and chattered, and they all surrounded me.\u00a0 Hands small but strong held me gently.\u00a0 I sat straighter, and felt borne to stand in the narrow confines of the hole.\u00a0 Fully upright, the opening over my head was still out of reach, though I could probably jump up and touch the edges.\u00a0 I dared not, as there were small creatures surrounding me.\u00a0 After the care they had shown me, it would be poor manners to squash one or two of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

I looked about for a stone or two to stand on, but the walls of my earthen prison seemed to be pure loam and roots. \u00a0I crouched carefully and looked at my small companions and asked a silent question by raising an eyebrow and cocking my head to the side.\u00a0 I looked up and pointed to the source of my predicament.\u00a0 All the little heads tilted back and followed my direction.\u00a0 Thirty three eyes or more followed my finger, and a small chattering ensued.\u00a0 As I stood there, the hole began to fill even more with the little creatures.\u00a0 It was crowded before I could exclaim.\u00a0 Two little ones, one with two eyes and one with three, linked arms, and a third creature climbed up onto their shoulders.\u00a0 The crowd seemed to get it, and there was a mad scrambling that would have put a traveling circus to shame.\u00a0 Bodies linked together, and climbed onto each other.\u00a0 Piles formed, and pyramids of smiling, grimacing, chattering creatures formed two piles coming to the height of my waist.<\/span><\/p>\n

It was an impressive feat, but I had no intention of stepping on my little companions.\u00a0 I surely would crush them all.\u00a0 How could I treat them so badly?\u00a0 A tubby little fellow stepped forward, grimacing up at me and blinking his one eye.\u00a0 He reached up to me, and I bent at the waist to hold out a finger.\u00a0 His grip was extraordinary, and he tugged at me, almost unsettling my balance.\u00a0 He let go, and pointed to the two masses of little bodies waiting expectantly for me.\u00a0 His grimace bade me well, and I turned to climb.\u00a0 The first pile settled a bit under my cautious step, and the second held strong.\u00a0 There was a burst of chattering cheering me on, and I reached up to the opening, and the portal to my world.\u00a0 With a burst of strength, I pulled myself through to a blue sky. I rolled over onto my back, aware of the warmth of the grass and the distant sound of cheering.\u00a0 A three-eyed head popped up out of the hole, chattered a grimacing chatter, and disappeared into the earth.\u00a0 I smiled to myself, and set once again on my way.<\/span><\/p>\n

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11-29-12\u00a0 Use this quote\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cIt is not down in any map. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0True places never are.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ishmael, in Moby Dick \u00a0 I thought it was a gopher hole.\u00a0 More legs have been twisted and more horses put down because of gopher holes than I can possibly count.\u00a0 I stumbled forward, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promptedwriting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mainlyprompts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mainlyprompts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mainlyprompts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mainlyprompts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mainlyprompts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.mainlyprompts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"http:\/\/www.mainlyprompts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mainlyprompts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mainlyprompts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mainlyprompts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}