The first rule of Write Club is that you can talk about Write Club.
The second is that you have to finish your part within 3 days or you lose your chance.
The third part is that you have to cc everyone else who has contributed to the write club story.
The fourth part is that only one person can add to write club at a time.
The fifth part is that you and only you get to pick the next person to write in write club.

Ali sat down by the pool and looked at the small iron door set in the ground, the hinges were a bright orange rust color standing out from the dull red of the door. His mom said that in the olden days they used to come by every week and fill the hole with water and that was their drinking water for the rest of the week, they would also put some of it in the pool and use it again and again to wash the dishes or take baths when it was still clean enough to do that.

But now they had pipes that brought water and they could even warm it up by turning on the heater 15 minutes before they took a shower. So what was down there now ? Ali couldn’t help but wonder. It was just a door, but it had never been opened as far as he remembered and at 7 you remember almost everything that happened around you. He had been specifically told to stay away the door of course that meant that he was going to see what was beyond it, but he had to wait.

“Ali I am going to the grocer, watch your sister while I am gone”

It’s a good thing Negar was too small to do anything since Ali was not going to be doing much watching. As soon as his mom was out of the door he took off for the garden in the back where the door was. He even remembered to grab his dad’s oilcan since he was sure the hinges were going to be stuck.

It sounded a bit like something screaming but after waiting a bit and kicking a few times at the hinges the door was suddenly opening. He couldn’t see anything beyond a few leaves that were stuck to the sides of the door, he leaned in a bit and realized too late that he had been too eager in his oiling of the hinges, his hand easily slid along the door and before he could stop himself he fell head first into the hole.

There was a moment where everything seemed to hold its breath, Ali desperately thought that maybe the Universe could overlook this tiny event, maybe Gravity would have more important things to take care of but if you let 7 year old boys get away with looking into dark empty holes then who knows what will happen, the Universe shook its head, Gravity said tsk tsk and Ali fell.

“plooop” is the appropriate sound for a small skinny 7 year old body to make when it meets the hard ground and the Universe and Gravity held their ears up waiting for it. When it failed to arrive the Universe gave Gravity one of those looks and Gravity sheepishly looked back and shrug its shoulders. They both turned to look and were relived to see that Ali had landed into a large pile of half decomposed leaves the gardeners had racked into the hole year after year. The Universe and Gravity fought to keep a smile off their faces after all they were unfeeling and cold, they obeyed the laws of physics without question even if it meant things had to go “plooop” sometimes.

Ali got out of the stack of leaves and looked around, there were passages down here, no one had told him about the passages. They never told him any of the good stuff thought Ali as he absentmindedly pulled an earth worm out of his ear. 7 year old boys being immune to the icky factor of worms.

Negar has the second part of the story coming along soon.