The Dream

by

Jason Reed

Danny Lomax: age 25, black with black hair.

Tina Cowell: age 34, white with blonde hair. Also 5'4', 134 Ibs.


Introduction


Danny Lomax, a young black man whom is employed with the Washington Post, was being honored today for his works in accordance with the elections for President of the United States. Danny is a cartoonist in which many people find his work very astonishing and at the same time helarious. Danny is very successful in this buisness and not just that he is well liked by many. DC's finest news reporter,Tina Cowell, even has a strong like for this man. Tina, a 34 years old blonde bombshell, white and 5'4' 134ibs-works for CBS news in Washington DC. Tonight the two have a date. Tina is not liked that much by some viewers. People felt that she would pass more as a porn star or stripper.

It was finally 9PM. Not knowing what to expect, Danny was well prepared for his date but for some reason he was not feeling well. The suit that he had on in fact seemed to be a little too big for him. He bought the suit to fit and he was not sure as to what was going on. He had every right to be concerned. He was in fact not sick at all. He was shrinking and had the slightest clue. This sort of thing you cant tell in early stages when trying on things like clothes. He even found the shoes he had on to be somewhat fitting strangely. Danny decided to go out anyway. It was about a thirty minute drive to Tina's apartment. While on the way, Danny found that there was a fortune cookie left in the passenger seat. It struck him that it must have been left by Tina on their last date. Danny finally reached a red light. He decided that he would crack the fortune cookie to see what the inscription was. Once he cracked the cookie he at it but left the fortune in the passenger seat. He was so terribly hungry that he would eat anything. Danny was beginning to grow impatient over the traffic light. He grabbed the fortune to read it. He felt that what harm could it do since these fortunes never come true. As he read it, it made him pause and think. Here is what the inscription read:

' TO WHOMEVER IS THE KEEPER OF ME SHALL LIVE LONG WITH LAUGHTER BUT NO MISERY. NO MISFORTUNE OF THE ONE BUT RATHER A LITTLE BEING AS A REMEDY!'

Danny was not sure what the hell it was suppose to mean and at this point he did not care. The light finally changed and Danny took off and at the same time he tossed the fortune out of the window. He really started to feel horrible. He finally arrived to Tina's house and was shocked to find that her lights were off. He did not even see her car. He thought that maybe she might have ran to the store or something and that it would probably be best that he stayed put until she returned. As Danny sat in the passenger drivers seat awaiting the sexy blonde bombshell Tina, he began to get a little bit sleepy. Moments later he was out for the count. Danny had finally fallen asleep.

Unfortunately for Danny, Tina was no where near her home. Even worse, Danny had parked his car in a space in which everyone gets towed and for some strange reason....he was no longer in his car but he was indeed sleep. It was finally 5AM. Danny awoke feeling a little better but a little disoriented. He sat up and noticed that he was no longer in his car and began to question where he was exactly. He then heard a noise. It was an extremely loud beeping noise. It was so loud that it sent all kinds of sound powered waves through his chest making his heart beat rapidly. In fact it sounded like an alarm clock to Danny. Danny took a moment to try to find an exit to wherever he was. As he walked he quickly confronted cloth like material. He walked nose first into it and noticed that the smell of whatever it was was really horrible. It was dark and very cold. Danny wondered why he found himself wearing nothing but underwear. By now he really started to get concerned. He could walk freely with no problem but still was uncertain where he could possibly be. He felt that wherever it was the little bit of light that shined down on him was going through a cage like material that casted it's shadow on him. 'Hello!!!', Danny screamed. 'Where am I?', Danny asked. None of this made any since. All he knew was that rather than being in a room he was in something with cloth that stunk like yesterdays gym socks. The beeping sound stopped. Danny heard something else that really began to have him worry. 'OOOHHH....MMMM!!!' This is what Danny heard. A voice as if though someone was waking up. It sounded like a womans voice but rather monstrous as if though she could be hundreds of feet tall. Danny then decided to be quiet just to see what was going to happen. This now is the problem. What was to become of Danny and still he questions where he could possibly be.

It was finally going on 5:30AM. Danny managed to escape the object that held him captive for sometime. In fact by now he realized what was going on and where he was. He was in a dirty clothes basket with a pair of dirty gym socks. He figured that he,along with the basket, was in the closet. Not just that but there was an object lying on it's side that look rather familiar but only larger or giant in size. It was a pair of black mules that Tina had on the night they both had gone out to dinner to the chinese resturant. You could'nt possibly imagine the amazement on Danny's face. The shoes at his height looked filthy. He could tell even with the little bit of light that came into the closet, that the insole of the mule use to be white but was mostly covered with dirt and grime. To him it looked like some one took a hammer and tried to make indentations in the toe section of the shoes but he knew that no hammer caused the imprints in the toe section. He knew that it was Tina. By now it all started to make a little sense to him even though he did not want to accept it. The words on the fortune: 'small being of fortune', was indeed regfering to himself in which the cookie belonged to Tina. He became her undiscovered fortune. Unfortunately for Danny, his presumption was correct. Danny was not sure if he should leave the closet or not. He figured that Tina may not know that he was there or aware of his new position in life.

The morning began going by so smoothly. Tina was just getting out of the shower at 6:15AM. Her footsteps back towards her bedroom sent rumbles through the floor. Danny heared her every step. Now Danny is not completely scared. He always loved excitement and adventure but hated surprises. Another thought crossed his mind. Tina must have some knowledge of him being in the area at least due to his car being parked outside. In this case, Danny's theory was wrong. His car had been towed away before Tina had even gotten home. Danny began to get real coutious about things. He started to make his way out of the closet. He made sure that he stayed moving alongside the wall to avoid getting stepped on by the titanic feet of Tina that he had yet to meet. Danny had finally reached the living room of Tina's apartment. He found that Tina's house was a mess. There were shoes, socks, pantyhose, panties and lying all over everywhere and neither article of clothing seen was clean.

It was quite a walk, but Danny managed to make it to a pair of old black, worn out, ballet like, slippers. They looked as if though they were worn for numerous purposes other than ballet. The right shoe was lying on its side and making the opening of it tilting onto the bottom portion of a coach in the living room. Yeah, very easy and accessible for Danny to just walk in. As Danny walked towards the slipper, he noticed that there was a little heat emitting from the slipper. The slipper looked somewhat clean on the outside of course..hey these are black shoes no one see's dirt right? Well, Danny looked further into the shoe to find that the slipper may be black but the inside of the slipper use to be white. No its a fairly grotest looking color that may be called...'grimey black'. Danny turned his head. They smelled horrible. He could not imagine anything smelling this bad. Even at his size he had this great estimation. No one could last two weeks trapped in something like this slipper with Tina's feet to accompany them. Tina had these very slippers on before she got into the shower aswell as when she got out. Danny was cold and did not really care about the odor at this point. Heat is heat regardless if the heat smells like the raunchy air that Tina's feet would bring or not. Suddenly, Danny heared footsteps again. She was ready for work wearing black dress pants with a black dress coat and white blouse. She was also wearing black thigh high stockings. Danny's heart began to race because he could not tell where the footsteps were coming from nor the direction Tina was heading.

Danny had no time to think. He jumped into the filthy slipper he was next to for cover. He began to gag and cough due to the repulsive smell of the slipper. Tina stopped right in front of the opening of the slipper Danny was in. Danny could not belive his eyes. He was looking at the right foot of the giantess Tina from inside of her right slipper. Although amazed, this was still irritating Danny. He started to pench himself. 'Come on Danny...wake up wake up!!!', he said to himself. He really thought that he may have been dreaming all of this. Tina intentionally kicked the slipper over. Now Danny is very preceptive but he made one fatal mistake. Sometimes he would see Tina on the way to work. She would park her car at a nearby train station and catch the metro rail down to the studio. What he did not realize was that these were the very slippers she always wore when she was on foot and then once she would reach the studio she would switch to her pumps. The slipper sat up flat now on it's bottom side just as any shoe would in preperation for someone to put them on. All of this action sent Danny sprawling until he was lying flat on his back. Danny still had his eyes closed. 'It's just a dream Danny it's just a dream!', he said trying to convince himself. He opened his eyes to a view most people lying on their backs in their own beds would have whenever they would wake up in the morning. 'Yes it was all just a dream. I cant believe that I dreamed the whole thing.', Danny said to himself.

Danny, now thinking that he was in bed, still had some uncertainty as to why he was still smelling the rancid foot odor of Tina. Relief quickly turned to fear. Danny now had a new vision. It was five gigantic painted toes encased in black stockings with a reinforced toe section slowly descending on him. Danny realized then that he was not dreaming. He was in a filthy slipper getting ready to be worn by the woman of his dreams. Danny did'nt know what to do. He figured that he was surely about to find out why Tina loved the slippers so much and at that after she was done with him she may even have another..'little'...reason to enjoy them so. Tina's foot began to increase its speed like a 747 preparing to touchdown. Danny was not dumb. He ran to the only place he felt that he would have a fighting chance and that was the toe section of the slipper. It did not take long for Tina's toes to accompany him. 'Nooo!!..', Danny yelled.

Both of Tina's slippers were on. Tina was not done yet. Danny was screaming in pain. He began to try everything in his power that might cause Tina to take her right slipper off. He punched her big toe and even bit it but nothing phased her at all. Tina on the other hand felt Danny's body but thought that it was nothing but a pebble or even the fact that the slippers were so old that the insole was starting ot come up inside of them. She made a decision that would be rather unfortunate for Danny and that was to just keep the slippers on until the lump smooths itself out. Tina began walking around gathering her things so that she would be ready to head out to work. Danny was now as flat as a sheet of paper but remarkably still alive. What Danny did not realize was the nature of it all. It's quite simple really. That fortune cookie made him also immune to certain things but only for a length of time. Pressure is one of them. Danny began to think about the numbers on the fortune he read. The number was listed:'031204'. Not knowing what it all meant, he tried to withstand the walking and also wondered why he was not dead yet. Tina was now at ease with her slippers. Yes to her the lump smoothed itself out indeed. They felt a little different now too because her right toes seemed to be getting cooled off from time to time...yeah cooled off with the short huffs and puffs of the flattened Danny. These of course were her favorite slippers. Tina made her way to her kitchen and at the same time giving Danny a wild and sickening ride. So far Danny was beginning to become one with sweat and grime like never before. He was starting to breathe in foot sweat like some people snort cocaine. Once Tina arrived to the kitchen all was stopped. Danny found himself being stood on again but this time in a different part of the slipper. He was finally introduced to a new friend none as Tina's arch.

It was 9AM. Danny inflated due to Tina being off her feet. She was sitting at the kitchen table drinking coffee. She had her right leg over her left which put the slipper holding Danny captive in the air dangling. Danny began getting dizzy from the rocking of Tina's right leg. Not just that but the heat, sweat and the odor just made it all even worse. Danny by now was breathing okay but cought somewhat of a cold. He had a sneeze and cough. Actually when he sneezed he notice that rather than little bits of snot or spit coming out it was foot sweat that came out of his nose and mouth when he would sneeze. When he would cough it was about the same. Most people would cough and mucus would probably roll on down to the chest but in this case it was not mucus that was in the back of his throat. He was literally coughing foot sweat. Danny was drenched in sweat in fact. His whole body just acted as an absorbant. While dangling, Tina popped her right heel out of it's slipper leaving the slipper hanging off her toes via the toe section of the slipper. Danny went falling. He fell towards the new opening in the back of the shoe. His quick thinking saved him from hitting the floor. He was able to hold on for dear life on the back rim of the slipper. In one way it was Danny's big chance for escape. In another he was only about a hundred yards from death. Like an idiot, Danny looked down. What he saw on the floor from the shoe he was hanging onto was the pumps that he presumed Tina was going to wear to work. He kept thinking of just letting go and just to go ahead and fall into the pump. Its funny. That pump looked fairly new and looked as if though no one had worn it a day at all. Danny kept thinking and came to a quick decision. He decided that he would make an attempt to land into a clean shoe this time. He figured that if he succeded he would have more than enough time to escape the foot free pump that belonged to Tina. Danny began a countdwon. On the count of three he would let go and hopefully land inside the new odor free shoe.

Danny started his count. '1...2...3!!', Danny said. At three he let go. Down he fell rapidly. Bullseye. He landed right into the pump and surprisingly enough with a soft landing. As Danny went sliding down the pump into the toe section, he heared the loud sound of the telphone ringing. 'Hello!', Tina answered. 'Oh high Cindy. You will not believe what happened to me last night. I had a date with Mr. Danny Lomax and he stood me up. I dont know whats with this guy. You know Cindy you may have been right. I think all men are truly bugs of the earth. I wish that there was some way I can turn that asshole Danny into a bug. If I see him I swear I will do everything in my power to squash him like the bug that he is.',Tina said. 'Hey girl dont you think that thats kind of harsh words. You may not know what happened to him last night. He is a nice guy and I cant see him standing anyone up without a damn good reason. He might have gotten sick. You know lately people have been vanishing in this town. Where did you go the night before anyway?', Cindy asked. 'We went to a Chinese restuarant. Call it what you wish they cook everything in there and it taste wonderful. Funny, I did'nt even open my fortune cookie and he knows I love those things. Not that they ever come true or anything. The resturant that we went to was on Alston St.. Thats besides the point though. I do not take back what I said because there is no excuse for it. We were suppose to go out last night and he even promised to buy me new slippers because the ones that I have-the left shoe is coming apart and earlier this morning I was having problems with the toe section of the right one. I hate him now. Now I have to just put my pumps on and ride the metro to work. I always hated going to work in heels or pumps but they will have to do until I get off of work and get my slippers myself.',Tina said. 'Well, you better get going because you are on at noon. By the way, you might want to stop going to that restuarant you mentioned because people have been disappearing shortly afterwards. Have you heard about it?', Cindy asked. 'Why yes I have. I never thought it would be true though. Hey I will call you on my break. Your right I have to get going. I will talk to you later Cindy. Bye!', Tina said as she hung up the phone. The whole conversation had Danny worried. Tina's end of the conversation anyway. Her discreption of him now is entirely correct. Not just that he knew that his escape was now pointless. He was better off where he was.

Moments went by. No surprise to Danny. In comes the 747 carrying its five passengers again. Danny ran to the toe section of the pump. Yes again he was to meet the right foot of Tina but was uncertain this time for how long. Tina's foot touchdown inside the shoe. Her big and second toe opened up and they were heading directly towards Danny. Only a split second later the insertion of the right foot was complete with a vile 'speroof' sound. Danny was now a 'toeman' sandwich. Tina's foot was already smelly from the dreaded slipper. As for Danny, he was in stocking hell. Tina gathered the rest of her things and much like before she felt the lump. Although Danny was being flattened again, Tina had one thought in mind and that was to check her stocking when she got to work. That being the case, Danny will diffenently be discovered before news at noon. As for Danny...the real adventure begans and the discovery that has been long avoided is soon to be in the making...

To be continued....