As a child you believe that possibilities are endless. You decide you want to be a firefighter, a knight, a doctor, a mommy, a veterinarian, a princess, or an artist, and there is nothing that will stop you. There are endless possibilities for good, but also endless possibilities for bad. There might really be a monster under your bed or in your closet, despite how many times your parents have told you it was impossible. Mommy also said you wouldn’t be late to school, but all the police blocked up the road and you were late anyway. Not everything she says is always right.

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Imagine if children were in control and the adults were just bystanders, unable to change how everything was being run. Rod Serling did, in a few of his Twilight Zone episodes.

One featured a man and a woman. They awoke in a small town, wondering how they had gotten there. They had been at a party the night before, but did not remember driving to their current location. They walked around the town to find that none of the cars would start, that the trees were fake, and some of the building faces were cardboard and Styrofoam. They decided that perhaps while intoxicated the night before they had stumbled across a movie set and spent the night there unknowingly. Regardless, they couldn’t seem to find a way out of this town and there was not a soul in sight to ask questions of. Eventually they found and train and boarded, thinking that they would finally be able to escape this increasingly unsettling place. But the train simply made a loop and took them back to the same station in a matter of minutes. At the end it was revealed though these two people had independent thought and free will, they were ultimately nothing more than a little girl’s plaything. They town and homes they had explored were simply a dollhouse and town setting, and they would be trapped in this place for the rest of their lives.

May we reconvene under the blood red moon,
-Black Widow