Friday, September 25, 2009

The Sock People-By Nadine Noriega


While Sgt Falconian

was at the LIBRARY, doing RESEARCH on COLOR FIELDS,

Walt's football team had gotten into a BIG FIGHT with

ANOTHER TEAM during FOOTBALL PRACTICE. The fight had

made the EVENING NEWS, and the VERY NEXT MORNING, it

had MADE THE FRONT PAGE.

Reported taunting led to a fight between two football teams

Wednesday.

No one was arrested or charged in the 6 p.m. incident at the

HamonRye Football field.
according to Deputy Sam Snooper.

Athletic Director Keith Kandikane said assistant coach

Ryan Krogerskrackers was
given a yellow-card for abusive language to an official.

Kandikane said he received an e-mail from the Athletic
Association Thursday that said no other further action was

necessary in the
matter. The Red Dwarfs beat HamonRye 7-0.

"The two teams were taunting each other on the field and

that led to verbal
altercations, which led to players physically fighting each

other on the field,"
Snooper said.

Capt Russell Hoolihan said the matter is still being

investigated.

"There are some things that weren't substantiated. But with

a thing like that,
we're still doing some checking and trying to cover all our

bases," Hoolihan said.

Meanwhile, Sgt Falconian had replaced all the

BULBS in his ROOM with SODIUM BULBS. This new lighting

system had turned everything in the little man's room, a

ghastly yellow color, but it eliminated all of the BLUE COLOR

that was in the room. Things had settled down and the

scruffy little man and his winged pet were at last having a

NORMAL LIFE.
However, it speeded up whatever was happening

around Sgt Falconian's room. More and more people were

turning into INFANTS, and even MORE THINGS WERE

DISAPPEARING INTO THIN AIR. Sgt Falconian's immediate

neighbors-----Mr Left, in room 30, and Ms Right, in room 31,

were experiencing an alarming rise in MISSING SOCKS!

Already, Sgt Falconian's two neighbors had

LOST-----between the TWO of them--------------over 37 PAIRS OF

SOCKS!
Unknown to THEM-----or to the REST OF BUILDING

C-----Sgt Falconian's NEW LIGHTS were SPEEDING UP A

wormhole that had started forming in Sgt Falconian's

trapezoid kitchen. When the wormhole had FORMED, SOCK

PEOPLE HAD CLIMBED THROUGH THE WORMHOLE, which

had started near SGT FALCONIAN'S KITCHEN SINK, and was

NOW FILLING UP MOST OF HIS KITCHEN.
For the MOST PART, the WORMHOLE was

INVISIBLE, save for some SPARKING which would rise up

from the SINK. This SPARKING would sometimes cause the

TOILET to FLUSH.
These SOCK PEOPLE would CLIMB THROUGH THE

WORMHOLE in SGT FALCONIAN'S ROOM. Using their small

TOOLS, they'd open up OTHER WORMHOLES to OTHER

ROOMS, and they'd use THESE WORMHOLES to STEAL

SOCKS! These people were perfectly content with hoarding

tons of used socks. In a SINGLE NIGHT, it wasn't unusual for

these individuals to net SEVERAL TONS OF SOCKS.
The Sock People would go from ROOM TO ROOM,

sifting through laundry hampers and drawers, looking for

DIRTY SOCKS, which they would then PUREE and SELL IN

VENDING MACHINES, as MOLDY SOCKS were CONSIDERED A

HEALTH FOOD, much like SOY MILK, and WHEAT BRAN

MUFFINS.
Early in the year, the SOCK PEOPLE had become

victims of a FLU EPIDEMIC, and their SCIENTISTS had found

that eating sweaty socks along with pureed calavasitas

could GREATLY DECREASE THEIR CHANCES OF CATCHING

the FLU. Dirty socks were a natural VACCINE AGAINST THIS

FLU, and the SOCK PEOPLE WERE GROWING DESPERATE!
Because the FLU was DEADLY, Sock People all

over the UNIVERSE had been GOING THROUGH THE

WORMHOLE, STEALING SOCKS FROM HAMPERS AND

LAUNDRYROOMS AT BUILDING C, and FRYING THEM,

ALONG WITH THEIR BACON AND EGGS, to EAT THEM FOR

BREAKFAST! Toe socks were an especial favorite, as they

tasted SWEETER than TUBE SOCKS.
Sock people also preferred SOCKS with MAUVE

STRIPES, and DIAGONAL PLEATING, as THESE socks

seemed to have HEALING QUALITIES, as did SOCKS WITH

MULTI-COLORED STRIPES on them. Because MORE AND

MORE SOCK PEOPLE were falling ill with the FLU, the

DEMAND FOR FRESH SOCKS became so great that NOW

THEY WERE BRANCHING OUT into OTHER PARTS OF

BUILDING C, going through rooms which had rarely been

used, or that had been VACATED LONG AGO.
Such were the affairs, ONE MORNING, when Sgt

Falconian had taken his bath, and was looking forward to

watching the football game, wearing his favorite orange and

blue tube socks-----the COLOR OF HIS FAVORITE TEAM, the

DENVER BRONCOS. As he dressed, he searched in vain for

his favorite socks, and found, to his dismay, that they were

GONE....

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