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By Jeremy Kirby
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As Jimmy worked, he noticed strange creaking and groaning noises. Also, the motion sensing lights clicked off with a loud slam after only five minutes of calm.
He enjoyed his relaxing position in the company but as time passed, he grew complacent. When he was finished with a job, he never started a new one as he did before. Eventually, his belly grew plump as he sat at his desk day after day.
Finally, his knees grew stiff as well. Besides that, his boss was wondering what took him so long now. Uneasy, he decided to do things the right way again. Although now, when he would count a customer’s order it was always one or two items off, even though he just counted it. Tired and flustered, he leaned onto his desk again and drifted off to sleep.
Tap, tap, thud!
“What the…?” The man jolted awake in his chair.
Slam, slam!
The lights pounded on in a row and lit up the aisles all the way to the back of the building.
Startled and not quite thinking clearly, he jumped out of his seat and ran after whatever thing this might be. Carefully listening, he slowly crept to the back wall. Then something again hit his head. A bolt from the racking dropped to the ground and the man, craning his neck, saw it.
Chattering away like a chipmunk, there sat a rabbit-sized animal. It had pink hands and blue fur with tiny yellow spots and large shiny eyes. It darted away but the man, whose wits were now returning, blocked its’ escape. It jumped through the air, and when it landed, was merely a cardboard box.
Jimmy knelt down and shook the box. Bewildered, he returned to his desk. However, when he arrived there were three more boxes, where before, there were none.
Now he understood that he had not miscounted the orders at all. Rather he was transporting these warehouse creatures hither and thither. For the remainder of the week he did not work at all but learned all about these strange animals. He found that they were kind but fragile. This was why they lived in the recesses of dark warehouses. They ate spare nuts and bolts, scraps of pallet wood and plastic. He came to love these "warecreatures" as he called them.
One afternoon the doorbell rang and the man let in his boss who was raging mad. As the door closed behind him he noticed a large semi-truck backing in.
His boss looked him up and down, “You are a dumb, fat, rat!” Unpack this truck and sort it. If it isn’t finished in two hours, YOU ARE FIRED!”
The door closed behind him and the young man was again alone. He was profoundly nervous. This was an impossible task, even on his best day. Just then, one of the friendly creatures jumped onto his shoulder. The others ran to the doorway of the trailer and then, Jimmy knew what to do.
Quickly, he grabbed a stack of pallets and spread them out by the load. The amazing creatures went to work with lighting speed. They jumped here and there; boxes flew through the air. It was all Jimmy could do to keep up with them. As they worked, he checked the papers against the pallets, they were all sorted correctly.
Click, the door opened and his boss walked in with a pink slip in his hand. Exasperated, Jimmy looked at his watch. Yes, it had been two hours but there were still so many boxes left to unload.
As his boss began again to angrily shout, the dark corners of the building lit up bright as day. Jimmy glanced towards the trailer. Anxiously, he led his boss to the dock door. Disdain spread across the wretched little man’s face.
“Good job,” he begrudgingly uttered.
The rest of his days were fast and accurate; although, there were not that many of them to be endured. Jimmy and his 150 new friends worked out of his barn. They did the hard jobs and traveled postage-paid, first-class.
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You have the makings of a great story here though, and the warecreatures are fascinating. Good job.