Type of writing: Parody of Gollum's love of the ring in The Hobbit. Deep down in Dunstable, near the Polish church and Mon-Fri police station, lived a small creature. Spawned from sperm and ovum, he was a Baby. In his isolated cell, he roamed back and forth, experiencing little natural sunlight in Lockdown Britain. He had been dissatisfied for months now. The smile he wore fraudulent, not worth the paper it were written on. The laughter? Fake too. It sounded a million dollars but a professional critic would soon determine it ‘imitation.’ Why was he a private ball of rage? The lanyard. The lanyard had been taken from it. Once upon a time he had access to the lanyard dawn and dusk. His father would put it on over his neck in the morning. Its oscillations- a hypnotist’s watch- entrancing, ensnaring him. He was under its bewitching spell. ‘I wantsss it,’ he thought. ‘I wantssss it,’ he grabbed. Yes, the father went to work, but the morning consumption was enough to sate him until ...