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Wake Up! Someone Left the Door Open and Grandfather Got Out

Can you follow the clues and bring Grandfather back home?

4 min readJul 1, 2023

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Hey! Hey wake up!

We have a big problem. I don’t know who did it, but someone left the door open and now Grandfather is gone.

I already sought the help of Father, but he is missing and I fear Grandfather has eaten him. We do not feed Grandfather because there is no end to his appetite — not even Father’s corpulence could dent the bottomless well of Grandfather’s stomach. Perhaps he has gone in search of sustenance.

I went to find Mother to ask for her assistance, but she’s run off to the forest. It’s up to us, his multitude of Grandchildren, to bring Grandfather back to his cage and free Father.

To find Grandfather, we must search for Grandfather Clues.

Photo by Jessie Crettenden

This is supposed to be a beautiful, sprawling forest. As we can see, it is no longer alive. That makes this a possible Grandfather clue, as He drains nature of its life with each step he takes. Walking through this land makes us tired, as does…

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Ordinary Doors
Ordinary Doors

Published in Ordinary Doors

Surreal, funny, creepy, and confusing stories written without the reader in mind. Unconventional narratives, experimental structures. Simple ideas made complicated, complicated ideas made simple. Love them or hate them — you’ll remember them.

Gunner Barrett
Gunner Barrett

Written by Gunner Barrett

Groovy Writer of Supple Words, LaserDisc Apologist, Grand Intellectual, Seer of Greasy Auras; Bots Welcome. Stories vaguely organized in my lists.

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