The Story that did not want to be Read

(page 18)

The story disguised itself as a Chinese cookbook, but the readers couldn't understand why a story would suddenly turn into a recipe for Kung Pao Chicken, so they turned the page to find out what was really going on.

The story became frantic. Its words were running like crazy, hopping and flipping and bouncing off the edges of the page. They were darting and dashing, spinning and spiraling, bounding and rebounding.

The words were falling and rising, flying and crawling, growing and shrinking. They were scampering and scurrying, swimming and soaring, pinging and ponging.

The words were exploding. The words fell in pieces. The words were exhausted. The words were slowing and oh-ing and stopping.

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