[BEEP]

  Maxim grunted under the covers.

  [BEEP] [BEEP] [BEEP] [BEEP] [BEEP]

  Shuffling to the edge of the bed he pressed the off button on his retro alarm.

  [BEEP] [BEEP] [BEEP] [BEEP] [BEEP]

  Grunting again, Maxim rolled on his side and reached over to the other side of the bed to the digital alarm clock .

  [BEEP] [BEEP] [BEEP] [Click]

  pressing the button of the second alarm, finally leaving him in blissful silence. He wriggled back into a comfortable position only 8 hours rest was not enough afterall.

  {BEEP} {BEEP}

  “Oh, for god’s sake,” Maxim groaned, finally leaning up, rubbing his eyes. Squinting his eyes' he quickly shut them again as a bright blue light shone into his retinas. Only for the beeping to stop and silence to rein supreme once again. "thank you past me for buying a broken alarm clock," he whispered into his pillow as he layed back down.

  Maxim would forever wish he had actually bought a third alarm clock before that fateful day. As while he was asleep the world and his life would change forever.

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  (4 hours later)

  Maxims eyes finally flickered open. Sighing slightly due to leaving the warmth as he swung one leg then the other out of his snug duvet. Leaning up pushing the covers into a pile at the base of the bed leaving his phone behind him next to his pillow filled with unread messages of panic from friends and family. Before slinking, slowly, slightly hunched into the dark bathroom. Brushing his teeth with the lights off to avoid the glare so soon after waking up before combing his long black hair from a matted mess into something almost acceptable to society.

  Grabbing a plate of food from the fridge he finally, finally got work by pulling up the online recording of the lecture he missed earlier in the day. Chewing the pen lid as he made notes on a notepad on the development of the modern nation state. He was supposed to revise after the lecture but Maxim new he could hold it off till tomorrow.

  After finishing the days lecture and warming up the remaining food from earlier in the day he dropped back to his bed not even bothering to pull the covers up from there resting place at the base of the bed. His dreams that night were night were nice as he snuggled up to a golden wooly sheep upon a field of clouds.

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  Maxim woke up for the first time in his life wide awake with a blue plane in front of him. Swinging his arm through it causing it to disappear, he found himself on his mattress surrounded by long wavy grass and trees that must be four meters at the base and eighty meters tall with leaves of red and orange and his only response to this majestic sight of natural beauty was to scream "WHERE THE HELL AM I."

  Stumbling to his feet Maxim swung around looking to find something anything to tell him where he was only to find pouncing a dog with red crystalline fangs. Maxim stumbled back falling off his matrice into the long grass, arm raised to guard himself in a futile attempt to save his life. Closing his eyes he waited for the inevitable CRUNCH of the dog biting him to death.