A tale of a oddly twisted yet funny an surreal story of wonderlands vision an the style of a devils kiss of entertainment version of candyland.

Alice In Sik Fathom

By Erick Tieman

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Copyright © 2011 Erick Tieman
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ISBN: 978-1-4634-1453-5

Contents

School................................................................2Health Classroom......................................................3Science Classroom.....................................................4Last Class For The Day................................................5Stranded On The Planet `Sik Fathom'...................................10Wonderland............................................................13Her Other Self........................................................15Tree Of Strange.......................................................18Limo Ride.............................................................20Tree Of Strangers.....................................................27Forest Of The Grodul..................................................29Tapeworm..............................................................38Gulutonous Blobs House................................................43Alice In Story Of The Insane Farmers House............................49Ship Sorrows Forlorn..................................................60Entertainers Stage....................................................66Tower Of Mernom.......................................................68Sevens Spaceship......................................................73The Sun...............................................................75Alice Awoken..........................................................77Journey Of Solice.....................................................84Tower of Knowledge....................................................85The Insano Asylum.....................................................88The Long Hard Road Out Of Hell........................................90Diary Of The Mad Hater................................................92The Milkman In Black..................................................94The Pirate Ship.......................................................99The Ship Wreck........................................................101Mudoosa's Spaceship...................................................106Going Where The Sun Dies..............................................114*The Dark Eden - Journey Of Rebirth...................................117*Alice's Fall From The Heavens........................................119*Hansel And Gretel's..................................................123*The Dead Garbage Kids................................................126*Scarecrow's Field....................................................127*The Mad Hater's Story................................................130*The Mushroom Boat Ride...............................................132*The Lollipop Kids Gang...............................................135*The Wizard Of Ozzdom.................................................137*Nasty Nubs The Leprechaun With No Legs...............................140*Zombie Raft..........................................................141*The End Of The Beginning.............................................144Alice Is Reborn Again.................................................145*Life Goes On, On Sik Fathom..........................................146The End...............................................................147

Chapter One

A Girl Named Alice

Once upon a time there was a girl birthed on All Hallows Eve named Alice Strange.

There were no broken hearts on this Hallows Eve night accept for Alice's. It seems that Alice's mother died when giving birth to her. Alice Strange was then born yet not long ago, the world as it turns then - turns then like a screaming dream made true to others accept for Alice as she grew then after.

School

As Alice grew she started going to school an on ... an on.. On one day though that Alice was going to school taking the bus - she thought while sitting & looking out the bus window (while riding in the back seat),..... `I always hate myself.'

As this is the third day of school - Alice was not exited at all, & her long black hair blew slowly in the wind coming into the school bus from her opened window near her seat.

As the school bus parked behind the school - Alice thinks to herself ... `it hurts to know there's just no point of creation, that were not human from ravaging a field before any crow saught the valley the field is in.'

Soon enough the school bus doors opened an all the kids got off the school bus, as for Alice when she got off the bus she notices she squashed a worm by accident under her foot. As for her first step off the bus (like a ritual skipping- the other two steps),.. "strange" - she thought at first as she then not have the queerest of feeling at all. As for when she did squash the worm - it was the squash of the feeling at that ... now laying dead on the concrete.

Health Classroom

Time itself passed by in school until health class had started with Alice at her desk in the back row of seats. Alice pays no attention an stares out a near+by window by her desk, she watches the newly+made rain droplets scatter & drip downward on the window until the droplets reach the seal below. Alice pictures inside her mind the bush outside through the window view on fire. As the teacher went on talking with an English accent. Alice thinks then `wow, schools going to suck without my best friend Erick being in non of my classes this year.'

Alice thought the English health teacher is quite beautiful. As for the health teacher she puts in the movie `Mary Poppins' an turns the classroom lights off.

Alice didn't know much about her nearest classmate named Mary, though Mary (as Alice notices) is secretly listening to music with her headphones on- being illusive.

Alice then taps Mary on her shoulder & Mary listens then to what Alice had to say. Alice asked Mary `like for freak'n sake do you think we have to watch all of this garbage, she fly's with an umbrella & sh**, I mean seriously.' Mary replied back to Alice `so, ya! .. like da! & sh**.' So Alice thought `so, ... I guess most of the students would of prolly said `like da! & sh**' basically too cause the movie's so corny.

Science Classroom

At the same time health class started with Alice, so did science class with Erick (whom is Alice's best friend that not in any of her classes). Erick also sat in the back row. Erick sits close to the science+lab shelves as well. It seems Erick likes also imagining the different fetuses (in bottles) eyes open & close & he rarely pays attention to the teacher.

There's a girl that always dresses in black that has a desk near Erick too whom Erick found out (a couple days ago) that she's into `decrepidology' - the ritualistic behaviour of bowel eating.

Last Class For The Day

Now nearing the end of the day for being at school to be over for Alice & the rest of the students at school, she - (Alice) waits impatiently because of it being the last class of the day. So ... time soon passed & the bell rings. Alice tells one of her friends named Pat (also a student in the last class for the day) - `later' as Alice then rushed through the hallways an out of the school into the school's parking lot where the school bus she'll get onto soon, is waiting.

Alice's classmate in health class named Mary decided to stay at school for awhile cause she wanted to hear the English teacher play her double violin in the gym on stage.

After all the kids were on the school bus (including Alice) , the bus driver then starts the school bus & pulls away leaving school grounds which then went down a long road far at first like usual.

Well, .. while half way to Alice's house - the bus driver decided to kill himself while in the school bus while he's driving as well. He's been planning on killing himself like this for years.... So .. the bus driver takes out these pills an starts taking them while driving the school bus & over doses on them. Soon enough the bus driver starts foaming out of the mouth & he got up while laughing an going then into convulsions in which then he had a seizer (being not at the wheel) and he fell to the school bus floor shaking.

It was like slow motion to Alice as the school bus `slowly then quickly' enough went off the road & crashed crazedly into a ditch. Alice's head slammed up against her near+by window which cracked it muchly.

Alice then fell deep into a coma laying distilt over her seat as then later she & the other students were taken to the hospital.

Chapter Two

IN THE GARDEN Of The Strange & Unusual

Alice - inside her imagination wakes up in her mind between inexistence & the mundane. Alice awakens in a visionary world with her having a cold estare when her eyes opened inside her mind/subconscious state.

Alice emerged in silence & darkness, her eyes fixated on staring downward in a foot of water & she see's a brightly colored wavy desert under her, staring through what seems (under a foot of water) out a stained glass window (an church+like) which lying under herself an under the foot+high water she's in.

Alice, then startled from noticing she's under a foot+high length of water, lifts her head upwards quickly out of the water as then Alice notices she's sitting down in a circular+shaped wall of bricks that which holds the foot+high water she's sitting in.

She got kind+of surprised again cause now she's well+knowing of not having any clothes on her. So, Alice sits in the water upon the stained glass window under herself - looking around, ill with ease & unknowing of where she is because there's little light to see as well around her.

So..... She puts her long black hair around her ears while she cursed loudly saying `sh**.' Then from all around her came tiny echoing voices speaking the word `quiet' over & over again. Alice became puzzled from it (the echoes of the word `quiet') as just then she was startled from a match then becoming lit in front of Alice's eyes.

A black colored shrouded girl whom's face Alice could not see, she says then to Alice `are you looking for some light?' Alice kind+of shocked replies back saying `what the hell?' The black shrouded covered girl replies `no, ... as what you know of the light is what I'm holding of only whating what it is, is it not?' Alice then replies `what?' ........ Suddenly candles (which placed all around Alice in a large circle) in this room started lighting by themselves going in a circle until the last candle in the circle was lit. The match, as well the black shrouded covered girl was holding quickly burned out too.

Now Alice was able to see the room she's in as then Alice asked the black shrouded covered girl what her name was. The girl tells Alice `my name is Ecila.' Ecila then say's to Alice `fallow me to put on your outfit, I was waiting for you for quite sometime now, I'm glad you showed finaly.' Alice notices the room she's in is very hot from when she got up from the water & fallowed Ecila to the other side of this room Alice awoken in. Alice, (cause it was warm her body dried already) now noticing her new outfit hanging on hooks which are on the walls to this room she's in. Alice see's her new outfit had a belt with a knife holder attached to the belt to her outfit hanging on the wall. Alice, while putting now her new outfit on then asks Ecila `so where am I?' Ecila tells Alice saying `we are in a place strange, this I'm glad you came as from your slumber you awoken here - in the garden of the strange & unusual.' Ecila odd enough then licked her hand abruptly then stopped quickly as soon as she just started too.

Alice, now done putting her black hightened unisex boots, her black leather top & dress, as well her cape+like coat colored hot pink with mouse fur an pointy collar ..... she - Alice then checked all her pockets she could check. In that she found only she had a knife in her knife holder & in the last pocket she checked was a amulet+necklace of some-sort. This amulet appeared to have a large symbol on it with what seems inside this amulet is filled with blood. Ecila then tells Alice that `that is your personal amulet known as the `Eyewhitch,' ..... it will help you be guided & protected mostly on your journey's.' Alice gave a slight shrug then she looked around some more. It seems to Alice that a circle of flowers that are yellow colored each is surrounding Alice & Ecila in a large circle with as well litted candles behind each of the yellow flowers also in a large circle.

Alice then turns to Ecila & asks her saying `why is the place known as the garden of the strange & unusual?' Ecila shrouded in all black not showing her face (because of a black vail) responded to Alice saying `this is the garden of all evenings wiching as is where I live as well.'

Alice abruptly looks at her Eyewhitch amulet necklace now that she's wearing it ....... then Alice turns the Eyewhitch amulet over an see's a saying on the back of it which she reads `Never One Day I Could Wonder Once In The Days Of Wonder.'

Surely this saying had some reasoning to Alice she thought. Alice pulls her hair through her necklace and she looked at Ecila then down at her black leather dress.

Ecila then simply tells Alice saying to her `in the days of wondering the never wonders are perhaps just in the eyes of those that ever ponder strange.' Alice then says to Ecila `why must you ponder your phathoms for?' Ecila then tells Alice saying `I don't, I ponder.... that you're the one.' Ecila then says to Alice `perhaps you're the one right or wrong, seeing you are ghostly, not I.' Alice grimly smiles from what Ecila said to her, then Alice walked passed Ecila to the foot+high water she awoken in an Alice got on her knee's by it, she then looks into the water. Alice see's her hair is all white, then something sudden happened..... the stained glass window underneath the foot+high water had unlocked by itself an flung downward open+whereby all the water fell downward then the stained glass window flung shut on it's own & locked itself too.

Alice then asks Ecila saying `why are we flying above the sky almost?' As Ecila then replies `I only ponder if as is the sky flying above yourself or are you above the sky.' Alice didn't understand as then Ecila turns then towards the nearest yellow flowers to ask the yellow flowers (oddly enough to Alice) the question saying `why?'

The yellow flowers stated one word each as with each word said - the flower that once spoke turned then the color purple going in a row around in a circle. The yellow flowers say `In the garden of all evenings witching as the flowers of the strange & unusual say down affalin in the sky is whence a desert lyes as bright orange like the wheel of life an of buried ghost play dead, lucidly among the stars your eyes may see as from a flower you yourself be blessed as the sky truly isn't falling as only of yourself from seed.'

Stranded On The Planet `Sik Fathom'

Alice, thinking it was pretty surreal of seeing actual talking flowers is then in disbelief. Alice then asks Ecila saying `what do they mean?' Ecila then only tells Alice `the flowers are of the brightest in knowledge yet & are each very purple, as well now they never stop growing, so far I think these flowers purple an bright are right - as larger they're growing & getting brighter, of what may come of all of this only who knows - as one things for sure that is you Alice must go.'

Alice then asks Ecila saying `where can I go', .... `i see no doors?'

Ecila quickly puts out all the candles lit in the room out with a wave of a hand. As for Alice, she see's the flowers ...... `they're illuminating'...... she thought. As Alice notices the flowers are also illuminating brighter each second that went by, Alice then shields her eyes some+what with her hand as Alice says to Ecila `how do we get out of this place?' Ecila then walks up to Alice & she puts into Alice's hands a tiny marble. As Ecila stood back from Alice then, ....Alice on the other hand notices the tiny marble growing in Alice's hands. Ecila tells Alice then to stand inside the foot+high circular wall on top of the stained glass window that's on the floor. Alice then did what Ecila had told her to do as Alice got more perplexed by the growing tiny marble in her hands.

Then the marble suddenly turned into a bubble in which the marble then turned into a larger bubble that engulphed her hand........then engolphed her arm.......& finaly sure enough her complete body.

Alice, then seeing Ecila vanish out of thin air - Alice then feels the flowers in the room are now almost gigantic, very illuminated, & giving off lots of heat while each flower grew more rapidly.

As the bubble then that engulphed Alice whole body had stopped growing with Alice inside of it. Suddenly the stained glass window under Alice (that she's standing on) had unlocked by itself & flung downwards open, in which Alice falls out of the open window, downward she fell out into the sky as she floated downward in the sky then. She floats downward so soundly as without a doubt Alice slowly opens her eyes as Alice's hands then feel the large bubble she's inside of, ...............she feels the bubble had hardened into glass around her.

Alice while she floats downward in the sky, she looks then upward & see's a flying round+like spherical garden in the sky above her, - sort of like a giant ball of bright illuminating purple flowers.

Alice sits down in her large glass+like bubble while floating downward soundly, she thinks how strange & unusual the atmosphere is - which is sort+of orangey colored.

Alice then looked upwards no more because the spherical+like garden of illuminating purple flowers (that she fell out of) then had gotten brighter in the sky's above her.

Alice thinks the orange sky was beautiful as then Alice looks below her (inside her bubble+glass floating downward) an she says to herself `I guess the flowers were right as I do see a yellow desert in my sight below me.'

So Alice leans back against the bubble+like glass (sitting still of course) as then when her glass+bubble came downward closer to the surface/ ground below of the planet `Sik Fathom', she held onto the glass+bubble.

Then Alice lands upon the yellow desert with a slight thud,.... as of a little off-put balance in the landing gaven Alice a bumpy pull that made her tumble against the other side of her glass-bubble. Unharmed though Alice sits up again, she puts her hair behind her ears, an she looks around weary of what just happened. Alice looks upward then & in her glass+like bubble she see's that the spherical illuminating garden in the sky above now looks like a smaller purple-like sun that grew brighter, larger, & higher into the sky's above, until from what Alice thinks is now a giant star in space that gaven lot's of illuminating light upon the heavens above Alice onto this stranged new world.

Wonderland

Then as soon as the purple sun started giving off bright purple light, it suddenly - the sun dies out, (because the conscious light in the heavens died out & the subconscious realm of Sik Fathom Alice is now on is in dyer need of consciousness yet everything on the planet though still had little light to it because of the orangey atmosphere & the moon).

Alice, .... she felt a small object appear on her tongue in her mouth....it was odd, yet Alice took it out of her mouth an see's the object was a marble - infact almost if not the same one Ecila had given her. Alice realized then that the glass+like bubble around her had disappeared as well & then she realized the marble Ecila had gaven her was the same one. Alice, merely now sitting on the yellow desert sand, she then stands up, & puts the marble in her leather dress pocket.

(Continues...)

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