Back-Alley Billiards

The white rabbit. The one from Alice in Wonderland… only it isn't. It's just a regular white rabbit with black beady eyes and a black eight on its back. It's sitting, cage-free, on a green table with a border surrounding it so the rabbit doesn't fall off. But the rabbit isn't alone on the table. It's sitting with fourteen other balls on the table, roaming around as the spheres shoot frantically across the table.

The rabbit scatters and hops all along the table avoiding the moving cannon balls with haste and precision. For such a small space to move around in and fast obstacles, the rabbit is quite agile.

The balls soon come to a stop and the rabbit continues roaming around the table, occasionally sniffing a sphere or two and then moving on. But the peace doesn't last as a crack sounds and the balls begin shooting around, bouncing off the borders and one disappears down a hole in the corner of the table.

Then it's calm. Then frantic. Then silence. Then loud crashes.

Then… a longer silence. The rabbit has its back turned on the cue-ball, unaware of the shot being lined up.

Then the loud crash. The rabbit sprang into action, but it went the wrong way. It collided, head-first, with the solid phenolic resin of the white ball. The rabbit's movement was summarily rewound as it shot back and hit a wall outside of the table with a squelching splash. Pink jelly was spread across the dimly lit black walls, slowly starting to fall to the concrete ground from gravity; little droplets splattering on the floor.

The rest that didn't fall began to seep into the wall, slowly disappearing before another white rabbit appeared back on the table surrounded by other numbered spheres in a triangle formation. The rabbit has an eight on its back.