http://www.blogtalkradio.com/hgd/2019/05/29/the-sock-draw-anomaly-storyteller-mark-raines-show...The sock draw anomaly ..Storyteller Mark Raines Show
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A story about time travelling and a boy and his sock drawer
“Declan Maxwell Jones!”
Dec looked up in alarm.
“I’m coming to inspect that room of yours, right now,” his mother’s voice continued from downstairs, “and if it’s not completely spotless, then I’m going to sell a non-essential bit of you for medical experiments.”
Dec swallowed, dropped his book, and looked around in despair. What he saw wasn’t good. In fact it was so far from good that even bad might be generous. A room in a house that had been in an earthquake and then a landslide and which had then been looted and then stampeded through by a herd of rabid wildebeests might be messier. A bit. But it would be close.
Where had the time gone? His mother had given him an hour to tidy his room and he’d intended to spend the time cleaning, he really had. It was just that the first thing he’d picked up had been his old battered copy of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, which he was re-reading for about the zillionth time, and that little part of his brain which for some reason he hadn’t learned to ignore yet, had whispered seductively to him, “Go on – a couple of pages won’t hurt. You’ve got plenty of time.”
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