Adam peered around the gymnasium at all the parents and friends collected in one place to watch the basketball game at the local high school. On the court, kids were running around playing with their balls. Deciding to create a little havoc among his classmates, Adam stood up and walked out onto the court. He pulled a small, wrapped package out of his pocket and held it up toward them, his interference and the curious item drawing their full attention. With his left hand, he reached toward the item and quickly tore the wrapping from it.
Though none of the spectators reacted the same, they reacted nonetheless. The sight before them had become unbelievably tainted. Some turned to the person nearest to them and started playing chess with hamsters and a skillet. Others climbed the rafters and began burrowing through the ceiling. A few poor souls near the gymnasium's door squeezed themselves into the tiny gap between the door and the frame, vanishing into infinity never to be seen again. Two members of the home team backed away, faced each other and then ran forward, almost to a collision point, before leaping into the air and walking up the now-airborne feet of the other toward and through the ceiling above.
As the ball rolled unchecked across the court, the remaining members from each team turned into snakes and approached it. One serpent swallowed the ball and was in turn swallowed by another which was then swallowed by another until the final creature swallowed its predecessor and then consumed itself. Birds began flying out of the mouths of some previously unaffected audience members and coalesced into giant slug wearing hardhats at the base of the farthest wall. Once they finished forming, a tornado that had been enjoying the game and was now distraught beyond words picked up the remaining spectators and put them in its toolbox while mumbling something about long distance rates.
Some sheep painted up like geese wandered through the cafeteria, unnoticed.
When everything had started to settle down and the train stopped under the away team's goal, Adam pocketed his shrinkled donnerbippin and turned into a tissue. Then the world vanished.
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