I had briefly
forgotten where I was when I finally woke up. Which kind of made
sense considering how much it had changed since I had fallen asleep.
My body was completely immersed in a very thick liquid which caused
me to panic for a moment before I realized I could breathe. Well not
breathe through my mouth but I wasn’t suffocating from having both
my lungs full of liquid. It took me a while but eventually I found
the tube that was connected to my bellybutton. I reach out through
the liquid I

That night I dreamt
that I was a predator.
My might unmatched.
My place as the king of my world uncontested by anyone with even half
a brain. Anyone who did dare to challenge me were quick to be smited
by my power and cunning. Yet despite that I was an honorable
predator. My prey considered it an honor to try to flee from me and
if they gave me a truly memorable experience then I would-
SPACE UNICORN!
SOARING THROUGH THE STARS!
I gasp as I’m
shocked back to consciousness by my phone ringing. S

I sit down at
one of the twenty public computers available at the Internet café
and log onto my seller’s account at Amazon while my best friend
Mark pulls up a chair.
“So what’s
so special about this bid anyway?” Mark asks sitting down next to
me.
“I got a bunch
of trading cards from this old man for only twenty five hundred.” I
start to explain.
Mark cuts me
off. “You spent over two thousand dollars on some trading cards?”
he says bewildered. “You can’t be serous Ty.”
I s