24-Hour Paradise

Day 319:

Have figured out how to move small objects. Made every label in the store peel off. It took them ages to stick them all back on. Pleasing.

Day: 788:

Daily exercise has increased my strength. Managed to tip over a castle of soda cans. Explosions everywhere. Floor was irretrievably sticky for the remainder of the day. Excellent.

Day 1006:

Have learnt how to utilize own energy and convert it into other types. Super-heated a hot dog so that a customer received first-degree burns on her tongue. Good.

Day 2340:

Possessed the manager so that he responded to a customer’s complaint with obscenities. Perfection. Plan to do so again when district manager comes to investigate.

Day 8549:

Whispered in the cashier’s ear everyday for 226 days. Today she finally went crazy and hung herself in the backroom. Superb.

Day 8550:

Am displeased to discover that I have been joined by the shade of said cashier. No matter. It is both weak and far behind me in development.

Day: 8603:

Cashier spent entire day sobbing in a most unpleasant high-pitched fashion. Attempted to block noise, to no avail. So distracted that was unable to implement any new problems in the store.

Day 8605:

Cashier continues to wail. Cacophony has grown so loud that several of the customers seem to be aware and disturbed by it. Would be pleasing to see their discomfiture if the noise were not so irritating. Something must be done if revenge is to continue.

Day 8606:

Attempted to perform exorcism with a magazine, a lighter, and the ring-tone of a stolen cell phone. Said modifications almost resulted in own exorcism; project temporarily abandoned.

Day 9621:

Would find the cat-and-mouse game between myself and cashier amusing, except that somehow am losing. Have determined that it is time to escape this place and enter the larger world once more.

Day 9938; Day 242:

Am still stuck in the wall. Will be killing the cashier when manage to struggle free of bonds.

Day ???:

Convenience store torn down some time ago. Concrete block of wall used to create part of the wall around now-vacant lot. Still trapped in said blocks. Cashier disappeared some time ago. Have lost all ability to manipulate physically, mentally, or emotionally. Displeasing.

Still think that this is an awful lot of punishment for bad luck and only one dead kid. Only two weeks past expiration date; those just guidelines. Everyone knows that.