The Angry Giant
Essay by Murt
"I fear all we have done is awaken an angry Giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
It is the future, days weeks, months, perhaps years have passed..
It is evening and the adult is getting ready to watch the spelling game when the little boy walks in, his sub-conscience sound asleep dreaming the mind pictures the little boy is sending him, the happy, carefree thoughts of a young child at play.
The child liked the spelling game, it had a big wheel made funny noises.
The tv had a picture of three people behind a podium that had big numbers on them. Each of the people would spin the big wheel and it would make the noise. There was another man who did a lot of talking and a pretty girl that would stand in front of boxes that would spell different words on them. The people behind the pidiums would spin the big wheel with numbers and some words he did not understand on it.
The talking man said "The next catagory is a name." and the bright square boxes came onto the tv.
The man said to a lady behind one of the podiums that she was first and the lady spun the big wheel. It made the wirry clicky noises as it went around and around going slower and slower untill it stopped on a number
3 with three zeros after it. "Give me a T" the lady said.
The pretty lady waved her hands at the spelling boxes as three boxes lit up "you have 3 t's" the talking man said as the t's appeared in the three lighted boxes. The boy giggled. He liked the noises the boxes made when each letter appeared.
In the recess of his mind, the giant stirred, something was disturbing his sleep. The giant would stirr when something bothered it. There was the time the adult was looking at a sign on the wall of the big store they went to to get food and things. The adult had a scared look and the child looked at the sign to see why the adult was scared. He saw himself in a picture on the sign. "Me" he said aloud, and the giant had stirred.
"No, the adult said, not you. " and led the boy away. After a long long time, the giant went asleep and forgot about the sign.