• *NOTE* read Some Kind of Nature first
    Darkness envelops me, nothing makes since anymore. I fall farther and farther down, with no trace of light as I go deeper. There's a bright flash, the light is blinding as the land hard. As my vision returns I see a carnival like setting, and the man from earlier in a top hat."Where am I?" I ask him as he walks up to me.

    "This is Sweepstakes" he says as I get up, "I thought you would never get here."

    "How did I get here?" I ask as I get off the floor.

    "Well you fell you idiot, I thought that was clear. Now come with me to the Glitter Freeze." the man said as I stepped back a bit. "Come on, lots to do" he said, for some reason this made me angry.

    "NO!" I yelled as I ran the opposite direction, the carnival started melting away as the man yelled back "YOU MUST NOT GO THAT WAY!". I ignored him as I continued on my way out of the carnival. The music started up as I ran, the attractions around me came to life and chased me. Quickly the carnival had been replaced with a melancholy setting, with dead trees and evil red eyes peeking out from the shadows. After awhile the attractions stopped chasing me, and for good reason, they were replaced with a giant tide wave of black tar. Try as I might I couldn't outrun the wave, and was swept up in it, surrounded in darkness again. Some time later I wake on a beach in front of a giant tower made of plastic.

    A man in a fedora walks up to me and says "Welcome to the World of the Plastic Tower. We're glad you came, we don't get to many visitors here. Now will you please step into the tower?". I got up and opened the door, the man in the fedora pushed me in and shut the door. Inside the tower was a terrible sight, blood and flesh everywhere, to my right there was a staircase. The stairs went on forever as I climbed and climbed, after what seemed like hours I reached the top. At the top of the tower was a large man covered in blood, he stank of death. I walked close to him, he appeared to be asleep, suddenly the man from Sweepstakes appeared next to me. He laughed and said "You don't want to be here Jack, do you?"

    I looked at him and said "Who are you?", he just looked at me with a blank face.

    "My name is Jim, you truly don't remember anything do you?" he said as he jabbed the large man. "Well since you have no desire to accept your fate, I must leave you here. If you change your mind, I'll be on Melancholy Hill." Jim said as he disappeared.

    The large man awoke and said "Jack may I have the amazing honor to wear your skin?".

    TO BE CONTINUED...