This is a short story about where missing socks go. The story is told by a lonely sock.
Once upon a time, there were two socks which were created in pairs, like all Socks. It can safely be said that they were made for one another. In the sock factory where all of the machine created socks are placed together to be sold. This pair was placed in a bag with other couples and shipped to America. While in this bag, they heard stories of speculated futures. Majority of socks believed that it was desirable to be useful, which included being worn on rugged feet and forced to endure terrible sounding things, but of al lof the things that they heard no one even mentioned the cruel fate they might endure and both were afraid of. What if they were lost and paired with a similar sock but not eachother!! This seemed almost too cruel a fate to talk about. It did seem likely though. Nothing really distinguished them from the other pairs in the bag.
Finally, they were purchased and the package was opened and they were finaly donned. Each night as they were removed they got to spend time in the "clothes hamper" together and they would discuss the day from their perspective.
Then one fateful morning as they were being carried to the washing machine one was dropped! Panic struck. But, ultimately both socks knew this could happen, and they both haddecided to endure their consecuences well, for what could they do anyway?
Later that day Suzy was washing her new green trousers and saw a missing sock laying on the laundry room floor, so she picked up the sock and put it in her small load.
The sock turns green and the other though it doest seem like a likely the match ends up in the dump with its original.
ReplyDeleteI have two alternative endings,one is that the sock gets paired up and placed on an incredibly stinky foot, though washed and washed until it gets holes the stench is not washed away. Not everything comes out in the wash,but the idea that things that seem dire or impossible will workout does in the end cause I wrote the story that way! The other sotryis that a baby picks up the sock and tries to eat it and then hears his mother coming and quickly tosses it into the garbage and the mother cleans the room and wonders where the heck the other sock went.
So green, full of holes,not matching and stinkym they end up back together and a homeless man with freezing feet is so happy to find twosocks that both fit he puts them on and lovingly cares for them.
I found it! :)
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