Mackenzie Crook
Mystical Maze by Mackenzie Crook
The miserabum idiooms hide thembods in tunneltubes what they’ve duggened and scraped out good with their clawy fingrils.
Long, screely passageworms all this-and-that-way, going shoom off over nowhere and then suddenly backways so that I’m startwards again.
Stop then. Breath slow and slow, not to let the angry out.
I’m more clevery than these ignowinces.
I’ll find them sure in almost now-time. So let’s go.
Carefullyfull, tipple toe, stealthing minimally, I remember myself which ways is right ways… But hang! What’s this?
Drat say it they’ve proper kelped me again and I’m standed stood slapbang at the beginagog!
Mackenzie Crook is the author of The Lost Journals of Benjamin Tooth.
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