someoneoncenew wrote:Drakulion wrote:someoneoncenew wrote:I was wondering whether something like this would come about.
Keeping on topic of literature, I remember at school reading a book that consisted of two stories, both in the same setting and (presumably) the same characters but from different perspectives.
The first story (can't remember it, sorry) focuses on a boy laying on the beach when a group of tiny pirates/explorers (it isn't specified) on a ship climb onto his body and hide treasure inside one of his nostrils, thinking it is a cave. They leave, and the boy sneezes out the treasure.
The second story (Down Into Darkness) focuses on a girl who is with the tiny explorers. They decide to explore this "large cave" (the boy) and abseil into his mouth. The girl falls down a hole/is swallowed and arrives in the boy's stomach...and that's as far as I can remember, I don't recall how it ended, but I do know it did not end in death (it was, after all, a children's book)
And, of course, moving over to TV shows, who remembers the episode of Ren & Stimpy, where Ren must travel inside an inflated Stimpy in order to locate and remove a virus or something that was attacking his brain?
And All That, where one of the opening sketches involves Amanda Bynes hiding inside Josh Server's mouth?
Btw, has anyone ever found out any info on these 2 stories? Seriously, they had been in this thread since the dawn of time, and it kinda drives me crazy that no addition info can ever be found!
I'm glad that someone has gone back through this.
If I'm being completely honest, this was a book that I saw in my school's library between the years 2000-2005. While there were a few colourless illustrations, all I can remember is that the book had a white hard-back cover; I'll try to summarise as much as I can with each story, but one of them is going to be incomplete as I didn't finish reading it. I don't know the exact title of the book, only that the book consisted of two short stories that involved micro-people at sea who interact with an unaware giant (or, in this case, normal-sized) boy - his age is never specified but I would imagine early teens at most.
Anyway, the first story is told from the boy's perspective, how he's lying on the beach with his legs in the water when he feels a slight pinch on his finger. From what I remember, he sees the tiny ship mooring against his finger but doesn't move as he doesn't want to startle them. The narrative goes on to imply that he can feel them traveling across his body, so he does his best to breath slowly and steadily until they reach his face. Once there, the tiny crew decide to place something into one of his nostrils before returning to the ship and sailing away. Only then does he sit up, and sneezes/exhales out what he realizes is a tiny treasure chest full of...well, treasure, obviously.
The second story (which I do remember being called 'Down into Darkness') is told from the perspective of one of the tiny crew, a female but again no clear description beyond this. Starts off in a similar situation, the crew moor against an unaware sunbather and make their way to the face, except this time they decide to explore his crevices further. Not sure what they attach the ropes to, but they decide to abseil into the boy's ajar mouth. There's not much in the way of description, but it's implied that all they really observe are the boy's teeth and tongue. The girl is then said to have stood on "soft land" (probably not the exact words) before the "land" opens up beneath her and she's sent falling into a much deeper hole - it's obvious that she's been swallowed unknowingly, and there's reference of there being water accompanying her down the esophagus. The last I remember, the girl arrives in a cave with "wrinkled walls" (again, obviously the boy's stomach, but this stood out for me because I never knew before reading this that the stomach lining was "wrinkled"), but I never finished the book to find out how this story ended.
As I said before, with this being in a school library with an audience for children and/or young teens, I highly doubt that the second story would have ended with the girl dying, however I literally cannot find out anything more about the book - I don't know who the author is, which company published it, what year it was published, nothing. Maybe I can find out what the school does with the books it no longer stocks, as there was another book I remember reading which I really wanted to finish (nothing macro-related, btw).
Thank you so much for the info! And damn you have some good memory! I can barely remember some of my books correctly, yet you still have the story and the name of 2 stories from a decades ago in your head. Kinda make me jealous. It's a shame that despite gaining all the available info and spending all the effort, none of us can ever actually find the book. All I can get from "Down into Darkness" on both Google and Amazon is, like someone had mentioned, a thriller novel and recently some horror movie titles. Maybe someone can rewrite this, perhaps? I really want to, but I'm just too busy with all the stuff in my university (and also I'm afraid that I can't match the originals). Maybe I should write a prototype in some free time!
P/s: About the wrinkling linning, I also share that same experience. Without seeing an endoscopy (that somehow got into my recommendation list on Youtube back in 2012), I would have probably thought that the stomach is a smooth bag of flesh. I do find the wrinkly stomach somewhat weirdly better, and it's actually some of the first things I would find in a vore story. Maybe it's just my weird attraction to anatomically corrected organs.