Amanda had just come home from school, and was torturing her cat by bouncing a tiny piece of string around. Her dog, Susie, suddenly decided that the little piece of string had been moving long enough and started barking at it. Susie's bark was a high shrill yap that sent the cat careening down the hall. Amanda just laughed at the poor creatures and went to the kitchen to bug her mom.

|=== The narrator would like to note that Amanda is not the nicest person in the world* ===|

"Mom, I'm hungry. When is supper? What is supper?" Amanda whined.
  "Supper, whatever I decide it to be, will not be done for quite a while," her mom replied.
  "But Mom, I'm hungry now," Amanda said in a very annoying whine.
  "All right, all right! The way you're whining you'd think you were three years old!" Her mom stopped what she was writing long enough to glare ferociously at her daughter. She turned her attention back to the paper in her lap and continued, "There is some fruit cake in the fridge if you want some food."
  "Yuck," Amanda gripped, but she took it out and ate a small piece. "Yep, still as gross as last year." She made a small sign that said 'beware the accursed fruit cake', attached it to the container the cake was in, and put them both in the fridge. Her mom would probably yell at her later for that. "Mooom," Amanda started to complain again.
 "Go away, now," her mom snapped in a threatening tone. Amanda made one of those noises of disgust that drive most parents mad and stomped off to her room. She jumped onto her bed in case her mom was listening, and turned on her radio. Really, REALLY loud. The words 'I was lying on the grass, on Sunday morning of last week, indulging in my self defeat' rattled the windows. "AMANDA!!!" her mom yelled, somehow managing to actually be louder then the music. Amanda grumbled and turned it down to a more acceptable level. She then started to sing off key to her cat, who had accidentally wandered into her room.
  "Rowr!" the cat yelled when Amanda held her down. The dog started barking again. Amanda threw the cat out of her room and tumbled back on her bed, pretending to do her homework.
  "I hate my life," she grumbled as she turned down the music to a whisper. She closed her eyes and did a very quiet thing, she listened to the music. It was so quiet, in fact, that her mom came up to make sure she was still alive, right after she had fallen asleep.

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Amanda woke up at the same time the smell of supper ventured into her room. The radio seemed to be louder than she had left it. She could hear the words 'and everything is blue for him...' very clearly. Everything wasn't blue, but it did seem to be much bigger, which deeply disturbed Amanda: she liked being bigger than everybody else.
  She jumped down from her bed and stumbled. Her eyesight seem to be out of whack. She ran through the small crack between the door and the wall and tuned down the hallway at top speed. As she ran just for the fun of it, her brother walked by and muttered, "Crazy cat." A warning light in Amanda's brain went off in her head (she isn't the brightest person in the world), causing her to look more closely at her surroundings. Everything was definitely bigger, she was sure of that now.
 "Yap! Yap! Yap!" the dog barked from behind her. She heard someone giggle and ran back into her room. She looked into the mirror across from the door and gaped, horrified at her reflection.
  "Aaargh! I'm a cat!" she screamed. Or rather, she tried to scream; it came out more as a terrified hiss as the cat in the mirror arched it's back. She took another look at her reflection and, being a cat, started admiring it.
 "Yap! Yap! Ya-" the dog started, but was stopped by a kick in the stomach by one of the humans. Amanda laughed inside herself at the dog, whom she was now facing, and was about to taunt it openly when she found herself in the air. Someone had lifted her by the stomach.
 "How dare you-" Amanda started to say in her cat hiss but was interrupted by a bop on the head.
 "Don't hiss at me you stupid cat!" a strangely familiar voice said and then flung her down the stairs.

|=== and the narrator pauses to hum the twilight zone music ===|

Once she righted herself at the bottom of the stairs, Amanda looked at her torturer, and stared right into her own face. "Amanda! That is not the way to punish a cat!" her mom bellowed from the kitchen. The other Amanda started humming 'My Way' and tramped into the kitchen. "Amanda, someday you're going to have an attack of conscience."
 "Yeah, right. You mean like a dose of my own medicine? Ha!" the other Amanda grumbled and then contented herself by humming 'That'll be the Day'.

|=== now the narrator decides to say: Welcome to the Twilight Zone ===|

Amanda heard, "Welcome to the twilight zone." She went looking for the mysterious voice, completely missing the point. As far as I know, she is still looking for the voice because Amanda is not the smartest person in the world. She thinks if she catches it, she will turn back into a human, but all she really has to do is drink some eggnog.

* The nicest person in the world was swindled out of his money a long time ago by the craftiest person in the world.

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The characters and events in this story are fiction. For those of you whose lives reflect the story in any way: Get Help.

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