Year of Writing 29

1/29/12

At the suggestion of a few - inspired by Twilight Zone episode: "little girl lost," and my daughter, who went to the cake dimension.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8W7vi5Ep-o

Children's book.

Isla is a girl with big ideas.

Sometimes the ideas in her head are so big, they barely fit inside anymore.

One day, one of her ideas escaped. It ran as fast as it could toward the door, only it missed, and made a huge hole in the wall.

Isla was nervous because she had never seen one of her ideas outside of her head before, but she was a little curious too. She decided to explore the hole in the wall that her idea made.

At first it was very dark in that hole.

Then it got a little bit lighter,
and a little bit pinker.

Soon it was very light,
and very pink.

Isla looked around herself in disbelief. She was surrounded by pastries! There were huge pink wedding cakes, tiny pink cupcakes, brownies, muffins, cookies and frosting as far as she could see.

"I must be in the cake dimension," she said to herself. Then she heard a noise at her feet. She looked down and saw her little dog Charlie.

"Charlie, what are you doing here?" She asked.

"I'm about to eat some cake, of course." He replied, and trotted off toward the largest cake he could see.

Isla was astonished. Charlie didn't usually talk, unless she was having one of her big ideas.
But it sounded like a great idea to her, so she followed the little black dog.

They ate wedding cake and birthday cake, chocolate cake, vanilla cake and strawberry cake. They even tried a coconut cake, but Charlie and Isla both spit it discreetly into a bright pink napkin, because they didn't like it, but knew their manners.

Soon Isla and Charlie were stuffed. Isla looked around for the hole to get back to her room, but all she could see was cake. "Charlie," Isla said, "How do we get back home?"

But Charlie was fast asleep, snoring on a huge upside-down cake. "Oh great," Isla thought, "now I'm stuck in this cake dimension. I need an idea."

Isla sat near Charlie on a pound cake that looked remarkably like a chair and tapped her head.

Almost as soon as she did, an idea leapt out and started running. Isla grabbed the sleeping Charlie without thinking. "We can't let it get away!" she said.

They followed the idea past pink pies and tarts, past princess cookies and gingerbread men, until things got a little darker and a little less pink.

In the darkness, Isla could hear her daddy calling her. "Isla!" he said, "Isla, where are you?"

Isla followed her Daddy's voice until she could see the light from her room. She crawled out of the hole, ran into her Daddy's room and said, "here I am Daddy! I followed my idea into the wall and went into the cake dimension! It was really nice there, but I was scared I'd never get home, but then I heard your voice! I'm so glad I'm back."

Isla's daddy gave her a big hug. "You have such a big imagination," he said.


That was before he saw the hole in her wall.