I woke up in a kaleidescope. My eyes were attacked by a blurry haze of color. Then, a smooth, tan face broke through the wall of impenetrable color above me. &quot;Your awake! Finally! Sire, come! The man is awake!&quot; she said. Even through my blurry eyes, I saw her smile, and felt a cool cloth on my head. Instantly, everything became clearer, and I remembered walking, no, running in the desert! The desert! The tracks! I suddenly felt a avalanche of questions assault my brain. I sat up suddenly, and the questions rolled off of my tongue and out of my mouth. &quot;Where am I? Where's England? What am I doing here? Who are you? What are MFPHH!&quot; The lady laughed and took her hand off my mouth. &quot;You know, you really should take water with you into the desert next time!&quot; I noticed she had a strange accent which I couldn't place, and that the colors above me were actually a well-crafted, quite colorful rug, used now as a ceiling of what appeared to be a small tent. Just then, a large man walked through the tent door. 2008-05-26T03:19:53Z http://ficlets.com/feed/story/28220 <p>Don&#8217;t you just love ficlets?</p> <p>Welcome back!</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/28220?basename=65189 2008-05-26T03:19:53Z OrangeOreos http://ficlets.com/authors/orangeoreos <p>The best thing about ficlets is the crazy twists and turns stories take. Suddenly the heroine (never stated female) is a man, he&#8217;s in a desert and from England. So much better than where I was going with it. (hundreds of mutant dogs breeding in the sewers with an insatiable hunger for humans.) THis should be very interesting =)</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/28220?basename=65149 2008-05-26T01:32:10Z AeroPen http://ficlets.com/authors/user_1987 <p>(gasps) whoo es ze mahn?!!<br />sorry.. i felt like being french today.<br />LoA</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/28220?basename=57966 2008-04-22T01:45:32Z invisibility_disability http://ficlets.com/authors/invisible_stories