Rat Maze

The walls were cold and slippery; Will could see some green peeking through the glass roof.  Not many people made it to this point in the city, He could see the rats scurrying above his head, everything above looked so nice and beautiful but only he knew, what existed beyond the round glass walls his grandfather had told him stories of “before” a time that no one else remembered. The rats had made the humans believe that there was no way out of the maze but they promised that they were working on the problem.

Kathy did not know of the things Will saw every day, she lived in relative bliss thinking that the way things were was the way they had always been and would always be, that there was no other way it could be. She worked for Ratsworth and unbeknown to her, made the plans that kept the human trapped in the maze.

Will was a security guard which was the highest level job that a human could have. Will's job was to keep the other humans from escaping, at least that is what he believed his job to be. The rats only gave that position to his family so they would feel like they had some semblance of power and responsibility, and because his great-great grandfather was the mayor before the rats took that position away they believed that it would satisfy all future generations into thinking they were important.

Rattown was a never-ending maze and no matter how hard the people tried to escape, as soon as they figured out that there may be a problem Ratsworth brainwashed them into thinking it was all going according to plan. So no one except for Will realized the corruption and evil that was lurking around every bend. There were parts of the maze that no person knew about, not even Will. They were filled with schemes and plots that the rats had come up with in order to keep the humans from causing an uprising. The secret places were sanctioned in the government, they were completely legal. The rats had made the humans think they had some sort of power over what happened in Rattown but they twisted things around so they would only benefit the rats.


Kathy and Will lived in a normal, everyday hole, it was not much better than everyone else's but it was a dump compared to the mansions the rats lived in above the surface. Even though they both had high profile jobs they never had enough money to upgrade at all, the rats made sure of that.


Every day Will walked back and forth through the rat maze, looking for goodies and secret passageways that might give him something extra, but no matter how hard he tried the rats had made it impossible to find any way to succeed unless they allowed the people to.  And so even though Ratsworth constantly promised that he would a find a way for the people to get out of the maze, he had no intention of doing so because that would undermine his power, and he could not let that happen now could he?

-Mariah and Ray