The Cuckoo Clock of Doom (Goosebumps Series #28) by R. L. Stine

Author:R. L. Stine [Stine, R. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Children's Books, Horror, Fiction
ISBN: 9780590483520
Amazon: 0590483528
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 1995-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

I could hardly eat dinner that night. I’d eaten it before, of course, and hadn’t liked it the first time. Peas, carrots, and mushrooms. Over brown rice.

I picked at the rice and the carrots. I never eat peas. I slipped them into my napkin when Mom and Dad weren’t looking.

I watched Mom, Dad, and Tara eat dinner as if nothing were wrong. They sat calmly around the table, saying the same things they’d said last time.

Mom and Dad must notice that something is weird, I thought. They must.

So why don’t they say anything about it?

I waited for Dad to finish telling us about his day at work. Then I brought up the subject again. I decided to take it slowly.

“Mom? Dad? Doesn’t this dinner seem a little bit familiar?”

“I’ll say,” Dad replied. “It reminds me of the lunch we ate at that vegetarian restaurant last month. Ugh.”

Mom glared at him, then at me. “What are you trying to tell us, Michael?” she said frostily. “Are you tired of eating healthy food?”

“I am,” Dad said.

“Me, too,” Tara chimed in.

“No. No way,” I insisted. “You don’t understand. I don’t mean that we’ve eaten food like this before. I mean that we have eaten this very meal before. We’re eating it twice.”

Dad frowned. “No weird theories at the dinner table, please, Michael.”

They weren’t getting it. I plowed ahead. “It’s not just this dinner. It’s this whole day. Haven’t you noticed? We’re doing everything over! Time is going backwards!”

“Shut up, Michael,” Tara said. “This is so boring. Can’t we talk about something else?”

“Tara,” Mom scolded, “don’t say ‘shut up’.” She turned to me. “Have you been reading those comic books again?”

I grew very frustrated. “You’re not listening to me!” I cried. “Tomorrow is going to be yesterday, and the day after that will be the day before! Everything is going backwards!”

Mom and Dad exchanged glances. They seemed to be sharing a secret.

They do know something, I thought with excitement. They know something, but they’re afraid to tell me.

Mom gazed at me very seriously. “All right, Michael. We might as well tell you,” she said. “We’re all caught in a time warp, and there’s nothing we can do about it.”

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