Weird and Gillies
The two figures in front of the laundrette were caught up in a heated exchange and were oblivious to the stares and irritated comments of the passersby. ‘I tell you it was here’ shouted the tall slender girl. ‘I had just come up from the underground over there when suddenly the rain came from nowhere. I ran along the street, people were running everywhere trying to get out of the rain. I darted into this shop entrance just to shelter for a while’ she said animatedly. ‘I was the only one in the entrance; everybody else seemed to not to notice me, though there was loads of room and it was still absolutely teaming down, nobody else seemed to see....’ ‘It went dead cold, and I started shivering, so I pushed on the door to the shop and the old bell above the door tinkled as I went inside and again as I shut the door’. ‘I blinked a couple of times before my eyes could focus on the dimly lit interior, I was amased it must have been one of those trendy theme shops all decked out in period features and stuff, really realistic like.’ ‘It was like a toy shop only with really cool stuff, like toy soldiers, only like real miniature soldiers, that marched along by themselves, and dragons and dolls and teddy bears that must have been computerised or motorised somehow because they seemed to be really moving and...almost sort of watching me..it was fantastic..and kind of spooky!.’
