Scratching the creative writing itch. Here we go…  Your eyes are closed. Now open them.  You’re in large rectangular prism or “box”. You can’t see outside of the Box. Scattered randomly around the floor, walls and ceiling of the Box are buttons. Big, red, plastic, arcade-style looking buttons. And you notice your scale. You realize that you are quite small in this box as if Rick Moranis pointed his shrinking laser at you and you shrunk to the size of small flower petal. Your height doesn’t quite reach across the diameter of the red buttons when you lay next to one. And now, the Ball. A large sphere slowly glides through the air within the box. It’s moving so slowly that you can walk beside it when it’s near the floor, and underneath it once it bounces towards the ceiling. The Ball moves in straight lines and its angles are predictable after it makes contact with the Box’s surface. The perfect sphere looks like a smooth boulder and it continuously and predictably Read more [...]