Beat the Glow

Click, clack! I hopped straight up onto a shelf stacked with old cassettes, drawn by a soft red neon glow. An old digital clock was ticking down the seconds right beside a ceramic bookend! *Bzzzt.* Every time the colon flashed between the numbers, I leaped across the plastic tape cases like stepping stones in an arcade platformer. Missed a step, tumbled into a neat stack of stickers, but scrambled right up to high-five the clock's snooze bar! Perfect timing, stage cleared!