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Spatuloso

11/1/2023 11:56pm

"Who's there?" I called. "Show yourself!"

The ruins of the town were still smoldering. Wisps of smoke drifted in the noonday sun.

"I AM showing myself!" the tiny voice called back. Over here!"

My eyes adjusted and I saw a tiny person no bigger than the head of a shovel, standing next to a bucket, dressed in a tiny uniform and throwing handfuls of sand into the air.

Spatuloso

10/11/2024 11:21pm

"Hey there big blue buddy! Looks like we could help each other out! I've lost my Bluefin, and looks like you've lost your blinders."

The tiny person in the ruins was talking to me. I drifted closer.

"I'm a Bindy Binder man. Let jump up your repair hole and I'll have you fixed up in no time. Haven't you got a Bindy Man? Did you lose him in the fracas?"

I don't think I've ever had a Bindy Man. 

"Every Bluefin's got a Bindy Man inside him. Or her. Let me up your repair hole and I'll check him out. Maybe he got knocked silly in the fracas." 

I'd have known if I'd ever had a Bindy Man
 
"Don't be so sure. We're mighty tiny! That little voice in your head? That's us! Just let me have a look in that repair hole."

Uh, no. I'm really not comfortable with that. Hey! What are you doing? 

"Bindy man goes UP!"

And that little Bindy Man scrambled right up into my repair hole.

Hey get out of there!