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Imagination is banned. It makes things that are imagined come to life or if someone imagined themselves as something else they become what they imagined themselves to be, so therefore it's banned. That is the law that now drives our decaying world. No one knows why our planet is dying. Maybe it's due to lack of imagination?

I was just a kid, playing with my friends, but then I imagined our basketball being bigger and we had to run away from it. The amazing thing was is that the basketball started to grow in size, alarming the other kids. My parents rushed out and grabbed me by the arm and pulled me away from the other kids, glaring at me, "Do you realize it's dangerous to imagine something like that?! Someone could have gotten hurt!" they berated me. "I'm sorry ma and pa," I cried "I'll try harder next time.".
"There won't be a next time, you're grounded! Now go to your room!" They yelled. I ran to my room to weep.

It was 10 years to that date and now I'm 15 years of age. "I'm off to school mom!" I yelled, happy to start the new year at the general school. Everyone went to the same school and were separated based on age. The younger kids would go to the preschool section, teens went to middle school and up while older kids when to high school and college. But I wasn't going to go to school that day, something... called to me, like a siren calling me to the woods. I decided to go through the woods, I thought to myself, "I wonder what that noise was?". Getting closer, I walked towards a cave... and in that cave, was a fox! But no ordinary fox, it stood on two legs! Bipedal and human like! I was scared I backed away... I didn't know what to think. "W-what are you?" I asked it. It replied "Why I'm a human! Like you! Only cuddlier of course, and the fur and the nose and the muzzle..." It swished its tail happily. "You're not going to eat me are you?" I asked it. "No! Why would I do that?" It asked. "I'm using my imagination of course! I'm not really this creature you see in front of you, you dimwit!" The Keyword Imagination flaring fear into my eyes, " IMAGINATION! BUT BUT THAT'S Dangerous! Don't you know imagination is illegal here?!" I cried out in terror, afraid that I might be arrested for association with this clear lunatic. Imagination? How could he do such a thing?! Imagination was banned for a reason and I'm not about to be caught in some scandalous act of this rebelling idiot! I couldn't believe he would allow his imagination to take a hold of him so easily... But... a thought came to my mind... something I did long ago... another incident that happened... Was I rash to think this way and say these awful things about him and towards him? Words dancing throughout my head like a figure skater free forming on the ice. Was imagination as terrible as they said? Or was there some other, possibly sinister reason as to why it was banned in the first place... I said my apologies to the strange kid and bid farewell as I raced to the school library, surprisingly still on time as school was a walk in sessions instead of the usual scheduled schools. I looked at a book, "Imagination, on trial." A Book by Eliot Wulford" I read through it... but some of the pages were marked out with black ink... a classic case of covering up the truth. I could learn nothing of Imagination... Perhaps it was time to use my imagination to uncover the truth for myself?
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