Tumble Dry

Warning the following is not for the faint of heart...and 2names this might bring back bad memories....

Summer's in Brasky could get quite warm, hot you might say. Even though we were in Northeast Brasky, not being accustomed to high temps all year round, we tended to melt after a few 90 degree days. As was the case the summer of 2000, but just when the temps started to heat up, a storm started brewing and sizzled it all out.
We were in Wayne, America, that's what the water tower said, as we sat on 2names' back patio enjoying a smokie treat, in the middle of the day. It was one of those lazy days, and no one seemed to have anything to do. Or maybe we did but we decided not too. Either way a few of us had gathered to waste some time toghether.
I distinctly remember 2names was doing her laundry, she evidently was the only one of us with any sort of agenda, and I also remember the smell of dead animal creeping up. You know how it does when the weather gets warm and it's almost like something must've dethawed, the flies finally found it and the wind picks up and lifts it just right, the dead stench seems to hang in the air....that's how this was. But no one thought anything of it. It was a fairly common smell in rural America.
Later in the day, the group dispersed to run errands, or just maybe to get away for a while. I came back to 2names house and she was there looking for Telly. Telly is a kitty 2names adopted, me and Niner also adopted 2 kitties from the same litter, so they were all brothers.
Well 2names hadn't seen Telly for a while and was afraid he might have ran away. The search began, although it didn't take long to figure out what had happened to Telly. I can't remember if it was 2names that found him or if she just realized what might have become of him, and made someone else look. But unbeknownst to 2names Telly met his fate, wrestling for life between socks, jeans and t-shirts.
Yes Telly took his last breath, inhaling fabric softener in the dryer at 2names' home. So that smell from before wasn't some animal thawing on a warm summer day, no unfortunately it was Telly getting fluffed in the dryer.
She was devastated, as anyone might be. She couldn't even look in the dryer. The way we figure he either jumped in while she was changing loads and she just didn't notice or, he somehow crawled up through the exhaust hose that went to the outside.
Niner came to the rescue (a true cat lover) and pulled Telly out, cleaned the dryer of any trace of the deceased feline and put him in a box for 2names.
2names along with Tom buried Telly that night along a dirt road, in a pasture. She tried to visit him again, but the rain had washed his grave away.
You know it really sucked what happened to Telly, and I felt bad becuase 2names felt so bad. But honestly when I think about it, and I'm an animal lover, its well...let me just say that little guy probably thought it was going to be so much fun and he'd have the time of his life when he jumped in that dryer.
Kinda like when you go on one of those spinning rides at the fair right after eating a ton of cotton candy and drinking a gallon of pop. Your excited, you can tell something big is about to happen, then the ride starts up and your getting jerked around and the ride starts picking up speed, and your thinking "oh this isn't so bad" then it picks up more speed, you get those little butterflies in your stomach, but then things start to change very quickly and panic takes over as the ride disorients you beyond all your recollections of normalcy, your heart drops down to your stomach, and you realized that the thing is just going faster and faster and faster, and it starts to sink in that the stupid thing is never going to stop.
Slowly you start to get hotter and hotter and your mouth is watering and all you see is blurs wizzing past, the distinct taste of cotton candy begins to creep back up only this time it doesn't taste the same as when it went down...you try to maintain control but then your body takes over and tries to expell all demons in an attempt to establish some form of equalibrium. Condensed and highly moisturized with Root Beer, brown cotton candy spews out of your mouth splashing the six people beside you on the ride. If they weren't screaming before, they are surely screaming in disgust now, and yelling to stop the ride before a puke fest ensues....
That's what I think it was like for Telly, except everything stopped before he was able to be humilated in front of all his friends.