It was Saturday morning and I was stumbling around the house, vainly looking for the coffee maker, when the front door burst open and four tons of sand poured onto my carpet. It coalesced into two vaguely humanoid figures that lay basking on the floor next to my coffee table.
“Ah, it’s good to get away from the beach and into some nice incandescent lighting,” one said.
“Yeah, although I always come away with carpet fibers simply everywhere,” the other one said. A seagull had flown in as well and had just made a nasty mess on my couch. One of the figures covered it discreetly with a pillow.
I finally recovered my senses enough to shut the door. I wasn’t entirely sure this wasn’t a dream and was also wondering if a wet-dry vac would constitute murder.
“We should built a book castle,” one said. “Remember that book castle we built last summer?”
The other chortled in a gritty sort of way. “We had it up to 145 volumes until the owners rushed it and swept them all away.”
“Take the good with the bad. If you don’t have owners, you don’t get the electric lights.”
I turned off the light.
“There! Look at that, that’s the switch now. It’s like Man’s cloud.”
“Be patient, it always comes back eventually.”
Just then my cat Vader drifted by behind the footstool, only his tail sticking up.
“Cat!” the sand piles screamed and bolted towards the door. Ironically, the seagull was not at all worried and a moment and a lightning-fast pounce later, I had even more mess to clean up.
I locked the door and went back to bed.
The next day, I bought a Beware of Cat sign for my house. My neighbors didn’t understand it, but at least I didn’t have to replace my carpets anymore.
The Green-Walled Tower 
June 5th, 2015 at 10:27 pm
great picture
June 5th, 2015 at 10:38 pm
What a great imagination you have, David. I wouldn’t mind if the beach came to me although that would be quite a bit of sand. 🙂
June 6th, 2015 at 12:08 pm
Yeah, maybe it would be better if the beach stayed outside. I could live with that. 🙂
June 5th, 2015 at 11:57 pm
cant say it will be fun in real life!
June 6th, 2015 at 12:07 pm
No, not in the least. 🙂 I was trying to imagine what it would be like for a beach to have so many people descend on it.
June 6th, 2015 at 5:34 am
I like it!
June 6th, 2015 at 6:15 am
That is a lovely picture and what an eccentric story to go with it!
June 6th, 2015 at 11:53 am
Thanks. I wrote the story first and found a picture that would match it. 🙂
June 6th, 2015 at 10:29 am
LOL! Cute story!
June 6th, 2015 at 11:49 am
Thanks. I thought of it originally for last week’s SPF prompt but it was too long, so I did it now.
June 6th, 2015 at 11:51 am
I enjoyed your story.
June 6th, 2015 at 3:34 pm
Great story! Little kids would love that room!
June 9th, 2015 at 10:04 pm
Yeah, I’ll bet. Then they’d track it everywhere. 🙂