Mimi was only ten years old when she vanished from her town.
At the same time, a boy named Kyler disappeared from his.
On the morning it happened, Mimi was walking to school alone. The road was quiet, and the wind rustled through the tall grass beside her.
Then she heard a voice.
"Grass Man, Grass Man, come, come, come."
The voice seemed to come from another direction, somewhere beyond the field.
Mimi stopped walking.
"Hello?" she called.
There was no answer.
Suddenly frightened, she turned and ran into the field.
The tall grass brushed against her legs as she pushed forward. After several minutes, she spotted a boy riding a bicycle.
The boy was wearing clothes she had never seen before.
Slowly, she walked toward him.
"Are you real?" she asked.
In another town, Kyler was at home when his dog suddenly sprinted into the backyard.
"Buddy!" Kyler shouted as he chased after him.
His dog disappeared behind a line of trees.
Confused, Kyler kept running.
After searching for several minutes, he finally spotted his dog nearly a hundred feet away.
Relieved, he started toward him.
Then he froze.
A man was standing beside the dog.
The stranger picked the dog up and began walking away.
"Grass Man, Grass Man, come, come, come," the man sang.
"Hey!" Kyler yelled. "Give me my dog!"
He ran after the stranger.
As he chased him through the field, his foot caught on a root. He fell hard and struck his head on a rock.
Everything went black.
When Kyler opened his eyes, the sun was lower in the sky.
He jumped to his feet and ran home.
But when he reached where his neighborhood should have been, he stopped.
His house was gone.
The trees were gone.
Everything was gone.
Standing alone in the distance was a gas station.
And nothing else.