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The Last Dinosaur
The Last Dinosaurby the sometimes too active
mind ofTJ Daniels (sometimes Poet)
Copyright © 2011 T. J. Daniels
A long, long time ago, in a land far
away, on a desert covered rain forest lived A Giant.(we don't
know what kind of giant it was, it was just called A Giant).
One day, the giant was cruising
along on his rolling stone, (the stone was the size of Mount
Rushmore), but it was round and he had discovered that by balancing
on it, he could make it move. And that became his mode of transport.
He hadn't yet discovered that he
could use two, like inline roller skates. This was the forerunner of
the unicycle, pogo stick, big wheel and many other fine inventions,
including the wheel and the one wheeled scooter.
He was going too fast one day when
too late, he saw a very large egg, just laying there in the rain
forest covered desert, but now it looked like a one egg omelet and
that was 'The Last Dinosaur'.
When the last dinosaur egg was
squished, it went to Dinosaur Heaven and was greeted by all of
his/her ancestors. You couldn't tell male from female dinosaurs, but
they had a special code, or maybe a special smell so they knew the
difference... maybe not. Maybe whenever they met another dinosaur,
one would say:
'I'm male' and the other would say:
'Me too, glad to meet you'.
There were Squirrel Dino’s,
Flying Dino’s, Crawling Dino’s, Chicken Dino’s, and
there were even a few Pet Rock Dino’s that had turned to stone
because of age.
Dino Heaven looked much the same as
Arizona, with blue skies, and a lot of sand and sand castles. It
almost looked like a desert, except there weren't any trees.
Otherwise it would look like a desert without trees.
It was a very peaceful place and
very flat, with mountains from horizon to horizon, covered with sand.
In the middle, there was a majestic fountain, flowing with sand
colored sand.
This was a very special sand, 'cause
you could drink it, eat it and you pooped beautiful hand-carved
sandcastles.
There were piles of sandcastles
everywhere.
Everyone that lived in this desert
was very rich, because they used sand as currency. Whenever you ran
out, all you had to do was reach down and grab a handful, put it in
your pocket and you were no longer poor. Many pockets were filled to
bulging. The greedy even had bulging back packs, and they called
themselves 'bankers'.
At the end of this desert, there was
a giant forest, with all sorts of vegetable and fruit trees. The
watermelon trees only grew a few inches off the ground though,
because of the weight of the watermelons, so you didn't have to climb
the trees to harvest the melons.
In the middle of the desert/forest,
hidden in plain sight, deep in the mountains was a magic sand castle.
It was so magical that it was
invisible and you could only find it by touch, or by bumping into it.
One night, The Giant tripped over it and fell on it and the sand made
him sneeze. He sneezed so loud that he created an earthquake and the
earthquake created a giant black hole.
As The Giant and the desert/forest
and everything that existed was sucked into the black hole, The Giant
was so startled, angry, sad and happy, that he cursed in a language
understood only by him. It could have been a happy curse, no one
knows, since no one understood the language.
Then, as if by magic, everything
that was in the black hole came shooting out as fast as light and
instantly reassembled itself as it was before. Except that in the
middle, there was a space ship.
The Giant was so happy that he tried
to climb into it, but realized that it was NOT a giant space ship, so
he straddled it. Then he saw a button that said 'Push Me', so he
pushed the button, but nothing happened. He kept pushing the button,
but each time got the same results.
He became so angry that he was going
to push the space ship off the edge. As he pushed, he kept hearing a
'putt-putt' then realized that the button didn't mean to push the
button, but to push the space ship so he kept pushing and soon, the
putt-putt became 'va-room va-room', then he jumped on and found
levers that increased or decreased the speed of the space ship. He was
so happy that he never even thought to check and see if there were
any brakes.
As the speed increased faster than
the speed of light, everything became a blur and suddenly there was a
bright, blinding light. It was so bright that The Giant could not see
anything. Then he heard a voice as loud as a thousand trains:
'_I Am_ Who are you?'
The Giant could not see who spoke
but in a loud voice he said:
'I am The Giant!'
The voice said:
'_I AM_ Larger than you! _I AM_ THE
TRUE GIANT!'
The smaller Giant said: 'Where are
you?'
And the voice said:
'_I AM_ Everywhere! _I AM_
Everything! You are not ready to see me. If you wish to see me, you
must know as much as _I AM_. Then you might be able to see me, and
still exist'.
The Giant was very confused and
frightened, but continued on his journey, as fast as he could, away
from that blinding light and terrifying voice. As his speed
increased, he started seeing flashes of videos, to the left and to
the right. The videos on the left said: Reverse and the videos on the
right said: Forward. Then he saw a large sign that said:
You Are Now Entering THE TWILIGHT
ZONE.
As he continued a short distance, he
saw another sign that said:
You Are Now Leaving THE TWILIGHT
ZONE, then beneath that, he saw a smaller sign that said: Just
Kidding!
Then he saw another sign that read:
If you have to pee, it's ok just do
it, but remember, here in THE TWILIGHT ZONE, water flows uphill, so
don't climb any.
Then he saw another sign that said:
Don't go too close to the edge, or
you might fall off, but if you do, don't blame us, 'cause you've been
warned, so The Giant stayed far away from the edge.
Over time, The Giant became bored
and looked around for something to do. He found a round thing made of
stone, but someone had made a hole in it, so you couldn't even sit on
it, 'cause your butt would sag through, which he called a wheel,
('cause he couldn't think of any thing else to call it) then sat down
in the sand to decide how to use the wheel.
He realized that if he had two,
he
could attach them together, then he could sit in the middle, but
since he only had one wheel, he had to find someone that could make
another. So he called the other giant:
'Hey! Giant!' then he heard:
'You called? What do you want?'
'I have a devise that I've named the
wheel, and I need another one'.
'I know what you have, and I know
what you need. Where do you think the name for it came from?'
'You?'
'Who else!'
'Can you make me another one?'
'It'll cost you!'
So the Giant reached down with both
hands and scooped up as much sand as he could hold, then said:
'Is this enough?'
'Exactly, right down to the last
grain of sand. There's even a couple grains over, but we don't
quibble over a couple grains of sand'.
After the exchange had taken place,
The Real Giant said:
'Look behind you'.
The giant turned and there was a
wheel, with a hole in the middle just like the other one.
'How do I know that 'you' made that
one? You could have taken my other wheel and put it there'.
Then as if by magic, in the blink of
an eye, there were two wheels, side by side.
'Satisfied?'
'Yes Sir Mister Giant'.
'It's Sir Giant, I don't have a
spouse'.
'Yes Sir, Sir Giant'.
'It's NOT Sir Sir Giant, it's just
Sir Giant'.
'Yes Sir Giant'.
'Now I know what you're planning on
doing, so if you look where you were last, you'll find what you
need'.
So the giant went back to where he
was and found what he needed, then he attached the wheels together
and sat in the middle, but that didn't work, because he fell
backwards. He didn't hurt his butt, 'cause his head hit first.
Then he realized that he needed a
sitting devise in the middle. So he found some material and made a
sitting devise and called it a chair. Then he chuckled to himself,
realizing the other giant had been at work again.
Now, when he sat on the chair, he
didn't fall backwards, nor did he fall forward, because his feet held
him up.
He discovered that he could, by
using his feet by pushing backwards, move the wheels, but he couldn't
see where he was going. So he looked and found a small piece of shiny
metal and by holding it in front of himself, he could see where he
was going. So he called it the rear view.
Now that he could see where he was
going, he started going faster and faster. He started going too fast
and realized he was heading for the edge.
Then he started to panic and looked
for the brakes, but at the last minute, he realized there weren’t
any, so he started dragging his feet.
He looked in the rear view, and
realized that the edge was getting closer and closer, but he was
finally able to stop in time.
When he had turned to see how far he
had to drag his feet, he was shocked. It looked like there were twin
canyons. They were very deep and he called them The Twin Giant
Canyons.
After the Giant died, someone
renamed them The Twin Canyons. They waited till the Giant died,
’cause everyone was afraid of him, but now they didn’t
fear him any more.
Now back to the real story, 'cause
that was just a peek at the future.
To Be Continued...
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