Things kept showing up out of the blue.
It had been going on for several weeks now and she was fed up with it. She didn’t want to make a fuss, after all, appearances are everything!
It started with a small, red button. It was an odd looking thing. After a thorough check, she was sure it didn’t come from any piece of clothing she owned. Then, other things started to appear. She found small things at first, scattered all around the house, some of them in the oddest places ;bottle caps she’d never seen before, a babies rattle, an odd shoe, a glass flower vase, a magnifying glass with a handle, a plastic dustpan and brush, a small packet of wax candles, a wire coat hanger, an elastic hair tie, a purple T-shirt, a bottle of detergent, a man’s spotted tie, a garden glove, a tennis ball, a bicycle bell, a small handtowel, a cookery book, a handkerchief, a yellow scarf, a pair of glasses, a sci-fi magazine, a wooden bead necklace, an odd silver earring, a frog-shaped fridge magnet and a small plastic dinosaur. The tin of rice pudding she found in the kitchen cupboard really annoyed her. She would never buy that, she hated the stuff!
The morning she came across the roller skate in the laundry shook her up. She had almost trodden on it. What then? She could have really hurt herself! That would be a case of the frustratingly weird becoming really dangerous. Then, there was the sudden appearance of the ironing board, laying across the door, just outside the bathroom. She had to step over it. She found a temporary place for it near the back door. Finally, this whole thing became completely intolerable when she found the piano in the middle of the lounge, next to the coffee table.
It definitely was all about appearances.
She had no idea whether it would work, but out of sheer desperation, she moved…