Words

The words leaped out of the page at him, attacking him as they did so. He fell backwards frantically fending them off. Some of them then bounded off across his living room floor, forming nonsensical sentences as they did so. While other grappled with him, threatening to engulf him in whole paragraphs of angry prose.

He struggled free and staggered towards his apartment door, but a Noun phase stood in his way, despite it's non-serif font with it dull edges, nevertheless it threatened to lash out at him and cut into his soft, tender flesh and they say words never hurt......

Suddenly to his left a Verb in Times News Roman clumsily knocked into a Arial covered Adjective that reared up in response, changing into a fierce bold Italic version of it's former self and smashed the Verb into a Plural of many parts that fragment over the sofa, all of which then scurried away beneath the floorboards.

He then saw his chance, for a Noun could be replaced by a Pronoun of the first person, second person, or even the third person. Therefore he grabbed a passing 'It' and hurdled it with all his might at the Noun phase thus causing it to avoid repetition or explicit identification.

It had no choice but to collapse into a heap in front of him. But by now the other words and letters were starting to form together into whole sentences. And their objective was becoming increasingly obvious, to find a portal to escape into the wider outside world.

It was at that moment his cell phone rang. He looked at the phone in total horror, for he suddenly realised that if they got to the texting part of his phone, they could be anywhere in the world in a matter of seconds.

He reached out to grab the now ringing phone, but a word with far too many letters coiled around his wrist and pinned him to the ground.

All he could do now was lay there and scream out for them to stop as they poured into his phone on mass......

Epilogue

For words to survive they must be part of a language of which the standard framework of transformational grammar and interlocking spelling is crucial. And as we all know, in the world of text messaging both grammar and spelling cease to exist in any true form, so the words that so readily went there, withered and died almost instantly.

So now being no longer a threat to us, the word invasion past pretty much unnoticed by us all except by one confused and frustrated writer.......