Trixi The Pixie

Trixi the pixie worked for Father Time, which was just Jim-dandy fine. One day Father Time fell asleep and suddenly time stopped and nothing moved anywhere. Trixi decided what she had to do to get things going again and wound up the universal clock, but when she wound it, something went badly wrong. Time instead of going forward suddenly started going in reverse. Birds started flying backwards, things went back into holes where they had just come from. Cars whizzed by at an alarming rate with drivers looking forward and the car speeding in reverse. Everything was retracing itself in a backward mode. The world was in chaos with ships steaming backwards and their funnels steam going in instead of out. Just at that moment, Father Time awoke a bit dizzy as he watched the hands on his clock spinning wildly in reverse. Oh my, Oh my, he shouted Trixi what have you done? The futures going backwards and the past is coming forward. He pulled on the large handle of the universal clock and everything came to an abrupt stop. He adjusted the leaver slightly and pushed it forward and everything rushed forward this time at an accelerated rate. A snail broke into speed and broke the sound barrier. Things were getting silly again. Everything was moving faster than they should. Transport was finishing journeys in seconds flat. Time was spinning well out of control. Oh my, Oh my, Trixi what shall we do and pulled the leaver again, then again into reverse everything flew. He pushed the leaver slowly forward until normal speed was restored. He yawned and said I am tired. Trixi wake me in an hour and with the way time is going when I awake it will be next year. 15 September 2009