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Alice banged her fists on the looking glass. Home so close, yet so far.
“But Alice, you are home.”
She didn’t want to be here, and she didn’t want to be there, but she had to be somewhere.
Alice looked beyond the glass again. The white asylum waited. It would be mad to return.
“Stay for another cup of tea.”
The hatter, the voice of sanity. When did up become down? When was the asylum taken over by the lunatics? Why did she follow everyone down the rabbit hole? Alice sipped her tea and washed her pills down. What else were tea parties for?
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Note:
Inspiration for this story comes from the children’s classic “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and the sequel “Through the Looking Glass”. More Fudged Up Fairy Tales can be read here.
Tannille 
Dear Tanille,
It sounds a lot like the world at large where the lunatics seem to have taken over the asylum. Well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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I must admit, I make an effort to step back and take a break from the screen now days. My sanity thanks me for it. When reality becomes escapism…
Thanks R!
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I agree with Rochelle. The world seems overrun with lunatics and I’ll add that politics seems to attract them like iron filings to a magnet.
Great story and also seems to sum up where my mum is these days with moderate dementia, which was my inspiration this week.
Hope you’re keeping well.
Best wishes,
Rowena
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I think being an ego driven lunatic is a requirement to be a politician.
Sometimes being in our heads is the best place to be. I hope your mum is doing ok all things considered. Dementia is hard for everyone involved. My heart goes out to you.
Thanks R
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Thanks, Tannille.
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So long as there is honey still for tea
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The door mouse sleeps in the honey pot.
Thanks N
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Like Alice in the story, it is difficult to know where to go and what to do when the world has gone crazy. Carroll may have been a prophet.
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Sometimes tapping out is the best place to go. No drugs — visiting nature or mediation are better solutions for a brain holiday.
Thanks L
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You’re welcome, T.
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Poor Alice, stuck in a recurring loop spinning along the path of sanity and back to anger. It is all that growing and shrinking in the asylum and the pills, more pills please.
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Mental cycles are terrible and hard to break. Alice is starting to accept a new reality — the outside world is bonkers, not her.
Thanks J
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I cared little for Carroll (and later even less, knowing how he was …) but his story was genius, and lasting. And, still represents for many aspects of their shifting perception and tilt-a-world.
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Carroll was an odd ball. The Michael Jackson of the day — did he, or didn’t he? There is nothing quite like Alice in Wonderland. And nothing can take that a way. 😀
Thanks N
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Interesting comparison to MJ. Maybe, eh? I don’t really know. I didn’t like him, or the story, for that matter, but the former might’ve been me picking up on stuff I would know to pick up on … and the latter might’ve been how discomfiting his story was in the truths it told. Yes, nothing quite like it.
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The story is trippy. It’s cold and psychologically disturbing in a way I can’t quite describe. Yet I’m drawn like bees to honey.
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ah! Sometimes these things are beyond explaining …
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The reality of this story is more common than we think. Excellent writing.
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Unfortunately I think people are feeling more and confused about the world.
Thanks L!
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We both took the prompt to mentally disorienting places. Your take on Alice is more Jefferson Airplane than Disney. Well done, T.
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I had the song and movie playing in my head. If I had more words I would have built the story around Jefferson Airplane lyrics.
Thanks N
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You got me thinking about both simultaneously. That would be a good idea for a video. I bet YouTube…
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Ohhh nice clip. I nearly want to do my own.
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An alternative reality… any alternative reality would be a better option than the state we’re in now.
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That’s what I was thinking. But then I thought my life is ok if I don’t watch the news and feast on social media. All perception.
Thanks S
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i guess enjoy your tea while it lasts. 🙂
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Tea turns cold rather quick.
Thanks P
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Very clever writing, and the asylum has been taken over a while ago already. Where is that rabbit hole?
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I’d say there are massive line ups for rabbit holes now! 😀. At this point the best we can do is sit back and wait for the madness to pass.
Thanks G!
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Define sanity! I got the feeling, T., the pills were to keep her at the tea party with the insane. Oh brave new world 🙂
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Everywhere is a mad house. I think you are right D.
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Enjoyed this, but I’ve just had some kind of mushroom and my mind is moving low. I’ll just ask Alice.
I think she’ll know. Fun one.
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I really wanted to slip a mushroom reference in but the word count stopped me. Let’s ask Alice when she’s just 10ft tall.
Thanks B!
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Love it. 🙂
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