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Upside-Down

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The summer solstice was a sunny day.  My friends and I were playing Pictionary up in my room. "Hey Jia, think! It's very easy," Kara said. "Oh, is it? Well, the thing which Zumi drew looks like a monkey and that is not the answer!" "Come on, my drawing isn't that bad," I said. "Okay, please make it quick. Time's ticking. Or in the hourglass, dropping." Shania said. "Stop this banter and let me concentrate, will you?" Jia kept glancing at the hourglass and back to the picture, but it didn't look like she achieved anything. Suddenly, she gasped and pointed at the hourglass. The sand in the hourglass was going up instead of down. "Am I hallucinating? This is impossible!" exclaimed Shania. "I guess not, unless people can hallucinate about the same thing altogether." I replied. The sand kept moving faster and faster, and on the upper half of the hourglass, there formed bluish-black clouds along with the