My cousin, Terri took me to the beach for an early birthday getaway. Terri had auburn hair, gray eyes, and at 5'4", she was three inches taller than me. I was wearing a black string bikini, while she was wearing a yellow one.

    As we arrived a very tall street magician (well over six and a half feet tall) had just finished a card trick, and announced that he would need a volunteer for his final trick. He pointed at me and asked if I would assist him. At first I didn't want to, but Terri kept saying that I should, so I walked over to where he was and stood next to him. I felt so tiny next to him.

    "What's your name?" He asked.

    "Carlie." I replied.

    "Carlie, please stand still and look right at me." He said.

     The magician waved his hand in front of my face, and I fell into a hypnotic trance and my whole body became stiff. With a flick of his hand I started to fall backwards, but a male assistant stood behind me and caught me, while another assistant picked me up by my ankles and they carried me over to a couple of chairs and set me down on the backs of them.

    The magician stood behind me, and waved his hands over my stiff body. As he raised his hands my stiff body began to levitate. The assistants removed the chairs as the audience applauded. As my body floated in the air, the magician raised his hand above my left knee. This caused my knee to bend. He did the same with my right knee.

    He invited several audience member to crawl under me to make sure there was nothing hidden that was holding me up.

    After that, an assistant handed the magician a sword. He held the sword over my body, and used it to quickly slice through my waist like it was butter. In my trance, I didn't feel a thing. He handed the sword to the assistant, and then held his hands about a foot above my bisected wait. As he moved his hands apart my two halves began to separate. The audience applauded as he caused my two halves to spin around so that my head and feet were facing each other. He also caused my knees to bend again.

    The magician again invited several audience members to come up and examine me. After that, the magician spun my halves back around and caused them to come back together. He waved his hands over my waist causing the seam to disappear. As the magician brought his hands down, I began to lower. As my ankles touched the ground, one of the assistants held me up. The magician snapped his fingers and I came out of the trance.

    "Let's hear it for Carlie!" The magician said.

    The audience applauded.

    "So what happened up there?" I asked Terri.

    "Let me show you the video I took with my phone." She replied.

    The end.