Stuck In A Refrigerator, a five minute freewrite (Brian part 5)

Brian's brain starts making connections: caught in a trap... Elvis... I can't get out... he remembers a story he read in the newspaper he found on the bus a couple of days ago.

A kid called Elvis had been playing with some friends on a bit of wasteland. They'd found an old fridge, and someone had dared Elvis to get into the refrigerator.

It will be like a magic trick, one of them said.

Or like the Tardis, another said.

Yes, it might transport you to another planet, another time, another place.

Elvis didn't need much persuasion, apparently, and had jumped into the fridge. The friends had closed the door, but then couldn't get it open.

Poor Elvis was stuck in there.

By the time the boys had summoned help, Elvis had suffocated.

The paper warned others against the dangers of fridges. And about the evils of fly-tipping.

Brian thinks about that story a lot.

He wonders what Elvis had thought about in those final moments. He hoped Elvis' brain had taken him to another planet, another time, another place.

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