{"id":893,"date":"2012-01-31T07:56:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T07:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/?page_id=893"},"modified":"2012-01-31T07:56:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T07:56:55","slug":"christine-storgeoff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/writings\/creative-non-fiction\/christine-storgeoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Christine Storgeoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sock Monster<\/strong><\/h1>\n
Christine Storgeoff<\/h6>\n

Finally off the rack, the excited shirt was brought home and hung up in the closet.<\/p>\n

\u201cOoh who is that?\u201d asked a belt, craning down from a hook. A drawer of socks giggled and a well-worn sweater sternly looked their way.<\/p>\n

\u201cKatie must like you\u2014she hung you right in the middle,\u201d smiled the sweater at the new shirt.<\/p>\n

Everyone was pleasant; except those in the laundry basket. The shirt wondered why they all had blank, nervous faces. He asked the sweater if he had done something wrong. She said, \u201cno, they\u2019re just worried about getting washed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut why?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Sock Monster.\u201d She paused, \u201cclothes that go near him never come back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later that evening, an elderly plaid shirt woke up.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh that hanger is killin\u2019 me! Why\u2019d she go and put me on a wire one!?\u201d He grumped and glared down at the jeans on the rack below.<\/p>\n

The shirt asked about the Sock Monster. Plaid shirt glared suspiciously at him.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe used to be one of us. He went through the wash and none of us saw \u2018im for years. When he came back he had \u2018em crazy eyes. Kids\u2019d take one look at \u2018im and start bawling. So he went back to the wash.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plaid shirt shivered.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell doncha got somewhere else to be?\u201d<\/p>\n

* * * * * *<\/p>\n

The shirt jumped into the laundry. They were dumped into the warm, soapy water and the lid was shut. Everyone held their breath in the dark.<\/p>\n

\u201cEEEEEK! HE\u2019S THERE!\u201d<\/p>\n

Two red eyes glowed in the dark up in a corner of the lid. The shirt was swept towards the eyes.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you think I\u2019m pretty scary?\u201d chuckled the eyes. The shirt peered through the dark. It was a sock and it did have red eyes: big button eyes coated in glow-in-the-dark paint!<\/p>\n

The shirt was surprised\u2014and asked him why everybody thinks he steals clothes. The sock looked surprised.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey leave on their own! I was Katie\u2019s sock-puppet when she was little. She works in a daycare now. If you stay up here with me she\u2019ll take you there and kids will decorate you!\u201d<\/p>\n

The shirt asked if he wanted to come back. The sock declined politely but asked the shirt to see if any of the clothes wanted to go to daycare, and if they did, to tell them the truth about the Sock Monster.<\/p>\n

And the shirt assured him he would.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sock Monster Christine Storgeoff Finally off the rack, the excited shirt was brought home and hung up in the closet. \u201cOoh who is that?\u201d asked a belt, craning down from a hook. A drawer of socks giggled and a well-worn sweater sternly looked their way. \u201cKatie must like you\u2014she hung you right in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":339,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"authorpage.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-893","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/893\/revisions\/894"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtls.ca\/issue9\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}