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IN CT CITY
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IN CT CITY
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/ / art by @mochiiimo_
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foreword
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“a city in the clouds ..”
~
Star Wars,
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Episode V,
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Empire Strikes Back
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sunny day
cat
walking in clouds that cumulus
enjoying the radiant & white all around
& then a sound ~
light
behind
cat turn to look
ahead
out tuft
smol ting pull gun & trigger fly wow ~
cat wake up
/ / art by @mochiiimo_
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1. in d rain
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cat
alone
at bus stop
waiting
under d weather / cold w umbrella
where fren? / where family?
not taking bus today?
not going to work?
cat wonder . .
feeling alone
& even tho temp chilly
cat light sweat’d since bad dream
~ at thinking, a sound ~
big blue berry out d bush
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// art credit ~ studio ghibli × ??
// dialogue inspired × @mewn21
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2. @ d stop
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side by side
cat & blue
cat don’t move
wtf / who dat / wat dat?
big blue monster ting.
cat no move but sense sharp teeth
maybe cat will be eaten
feel that kind of day
as cat think
big blue monster step out in front of cat.
raise arms.
bare sharp teeth.
bus coming.
maybe not soon enough.
cat may get ate.
but suddenly . .bus may be nearing quickly enough
wtf
bus driving full speed swerving, about to hit blue
cat whip umbrella dart through air / through window
along dive to save blue
big blue monster belly bounce afar
as cat somersault roll on wet asphalt
bus peel out in street to a screech stop
cat sitting in street, looking at bus
can’t see much cuz rain
but umbrella hole in window.
no moving
bus door open
off d bus step a smol ting
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//* character/credits
* & many smol write tings
× @inversebrah
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3. on d blok
mcds hat
rubber lipp’d
green body
arms flipper’d
feet .. maybe penguin? maybe platypus duck?
wat d hek?
tink cat
wat dat green ugly lil sh*t pepe peep smol ting
that almost killed.
not good, tink cat.
not scary / not moving
but staredown,
happening
look d same smolting from dream . .
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o s h * !
ninja stars out d blue aim’d to pierce / thrash —
but cat nimble / cat quik -
hop hand stand flip out d way
dodge every
all d same
as ninja stars boomerang across way
into flipper palm of smol ting
staredown take place
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4. showdown b/w samurai
study exchanged.
meanwhile, cat grazed.
cat tink:
it smol, ugly, & sad look
but throw mean ninja star disk
& was in bad dream . .
& cat got cut.
cat never ever get nipped no way
but today ..
this not good, tink cat . .
“meow”
cat raise paw, offer peace
& smolting ..
w no friends
many frenemies
lots cotworkers
none d less is touch’d,
but in smol way
& all signs point to that cat is that to blame for everything!
smolting don’t forgets dat & since
suddenly ~
squints more mean & spins ~
ninja stars disks go a flying ~
through sky
ninja star disks
swinging wide
cat look through the sky of trajectories
- AR visual
calculations
calculus
/ / m th r f ck r
CL cat tic-tac-toe—handspring-crossed the street
as ninja stars swoop criss-cross / hone in for cat
who
dash
step
duck
doge
mount
spring
reach-back-pull samurai sword
cat blade uppercut ~
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5. kill smol
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via infinity symbol swoop
& land w/ arms open,
sword red, stance zen poise-balanced before two smol halves
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halves evolved medusa-style
one turn’d into smolting
one turn’d into chicken
who sat up, checked watch ~
“we late for shift!”
( .__.)
smolting sigh’d.
chick was right.
McDs been open since 6 AM
but smolting been plotting & next ting,
smol ting catch 6 ninja star out d air dat boomerang in flipper palm.
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smol ting squinted mean look at cat
then got on bus.
chicken followed.
bus drove on
& cat was not quite sure how to tink about what just happened
but also had work ..
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suddenly clear sky opened
& cat took a walk
in radiant day
// avatar credits to CL cat / @CL207
// art credits ?? if anyone know pls @
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6. carpool
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bus speeding —
bus screeching to a stop.
standing there ~
chk
pig
duk
bus door opened,
smol ting at wheel.
big fat chk huff’d up real gruff ~
“late again smol ting.”
smol ting gazed sad.
“if u don’t look iss okay.”
big chk climbed step, crossed arms.
“me not pay bus fare today.”
smol ting understand.
"oke.”
said smol,
who pulled gun
& put to big fat chk forehead.
“okie okie geeze!”
big fat chk deposited several many magic internet money coin.
bus fare ding’d.
smolting tucked away gun.
fat chk walked down to empty bus seat
& sat next to chicken.
next ting, pig climb’d bus steps.
smol said: “sory me late.”
“it oke.”
said pig, who pay fare.
smol pointed to pig.
“where nametag?”
pig looked about.
“mayb me forgot . .”
( .___. )
“sory me forgot.”
smolting sigh’d.
“iss oke. won’t look.”
next ting, duk board’d bus, holding big jar of bugs
“hold eet.” said smol. “wat dat?”
“my pets,” said duk,
smolting looked at d bugs, then back to duk.
“dis not bring pets to work day.”
duk was trying to hide it but jar was too big.
“dey also snaks,” said duck,
smol ting took jar, threw out window, jar broke & bugs flew free.
“we have snacks at d work”
smol ting handed duk a McDs voucher for small fries.
duk lit up.
“oke.”
duk paid fare, got on bus, sat behind smolting
who drop down into pedal area & stand on pedal
& tried driving straight
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7. strike
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bus was swerving quickly for McDs
“wat D fuk!” cry big fat chk.
bus crashed into back of McDonald’s ~
wassies through windows ~ into work ~ McD’s kitchen
whole gang there
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smol ting crash landed on front counter cash box
“ohh, ~” / “argg!” / “uggh,” groan’d cotworkers.
“u lil sh*t” ,
said boarhead,
“you bus parked d cream machine.
now it out of d service again.”
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smol ting sit up, check wreckage —>
bus in McD’s backside.
“oopsie,” said smol, “it bery, berry hard fer smolting to drive bus,”
power is out.
smolting flipp’d back-up generator breaker
lights go lit.
“is ebryone okie?” ask smol
“tink u keel’d grunion ..” said porpoise.
smol ting sighed.
“axcident,” said smol ting,
“also today first day McFish Filet back on menu”
:3
“will help save us for this month’s fish order.”
smolting pencil’d big checkmark on clipboard
then looked around, noticing the food serving area was empty ~
“hey,” he said, “where consumer?” he asked, “wat dat outside happening?”
huge masses of people,
picket-signed,
were marching about, blocking the entrance.
“D Strike, said Swap Bunny, “dint you hear? No more pancakes.”
“w a t ?”
Pancakes had been a Brekky Menu Staple Fav since McD’s opening.
“Now dey crepes,” said toad, “French take on Cuisine. Dey ok. Doe flimsy ..”
toad handed one to smol,
who took in flipper,
tried biting but crepe was flopping away from his mouth.
O__O
“wtf Ron tinking?” asked smolting, “we cannot serve dees.
smolting tossed crepe, walked to door & lock’d it with key.
also tossed key.
“ebrybody take hour lunch break.
“free happy meals all around.
when ebrybody have dere meal,
we plan Great Escape.”
duk walked up to smolting.
“can me do supersize?”
smolting swh.
“we talk’d bout this before,” said smol, “u can’t supersize happy meal.”
“me didn’t know dat.”
“u work’d here 5 years,” said smol, “wen u lern menu?”
( .___.)
duk went to trout & ordered a supersized happy meal
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8. internet computer
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in lux box,
cool cats op. room,
@ screen,
whole gang there
@ FTX CPU
gaming
coding
vr-dancing
cat jump out from nowhere via mctwist flip
& slash-slash graph chart,
catch Magic Internet Coin that pop out of screen.
cat win round.
“cat nabbed eet again.”
“no fair / dat was mine.”
“rug’d.”
“cat give to me, have new alt on d pop. ~
low 2 zero risk,
returns by closing digz.”
team was crowding to negotiate coin from cat,
who stood cute & happy with 1 BTC Token
$40 G
hovering below.
cat put coin into NFT digi-mount.
BTC coin jump to $50 G
cat raised up.
“Coin to contender,”
said cat,
“Whoever play next round better, get NFT Coin.”
foo said :
“who ever dare be contender but foo?”
crowd cleared.
panda geared.
fox ran ~
jump’d into screen.
foo walked to corner of internet computer touch screen
began moving around data in Star FTX
while inside Internet Computer,
fox was flying fighter wingjet,
cool cats impressed
as fox avoid klingons / blast lazrs.
everybody watching amazed.
“How is dis fox so game?”
“must be foo,” said foo,
meanwhile, on another terminal screen,
blueberry was looking at chart,
green candle turn’d iridescent red.
sight of it caught blue’s eye.
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amongst all up & down lines, looked normal, / nothing unordinary
but blueberry was suspicious.
“cat,” said blue.
cat looked too.
“cat don’t care for this
said cat,
“cat don’t care no bit.”
|:
“kink in graph.”
said blue.
an analyst stepped in round blue & cat.
“Normal fluctuationing of d bula.”
blue looked to analyst,
then to cat
|:
cat spoke mutually ~
“don’t like where that b that d chart to go red”
said cat,
“fragile part. not good, cat tinks. we will keep an eye on & stat.”
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9. broke infra
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at McD’s, wassies working
trout at grill, smoking cigar
was tapping ash on the patties.
platypus’ burger was up.
he not look happy.
“bls . .” said platy, “Why u do that?”
trout said plain —
“Relax.
Macanuda.
7/10.
Pretty good aftertaste.
Go good with katschup & pickle.”
trout served.
platy took happy meal lunch bag unhappily to part of bus broke through building,
set up his meal on front-bumper beside cotworkers.
meanwhile, several other wassies standing
around where bus crash’d into building McD’s,
picket line was now circling restaurant.
“what we going to do?” asked a wassie.
“how we going to escape?” asked another.
“dat picket line not cross-safe,” said another. “They too hungry for pancakies.”
smol ting sighed,
“may be oke idea to borrow some monis for weaponry ..”
smolting went to cash box, typed combo, nothing happened.
“why register no opening?”
waddles with binocs pointed to a field in grass,
where a big electric box
was displaced by bus.
“tink you broke infra.”
smolting looked at the ripped circuits of the Generator Box.
( . ____ . )
not smolting’s day, but pretty normally.
smolting returned to cashbox.
pulled gun.
blasted hole in display - drawer went open - revealing 20s 10s 5s 1
under the drawer, multiples of 100s banded
smolting stashed them in Happy Meal Bag
then walk to trout.
“smoltings Mc Fish ready?”
trout put his cigar out on the patty,
bunned it,
bagged it,
& served.
“Ebryone act like dis a bery hostile situation.”
said smol.
“Follow me to McD’s Playpen in d bak.”
“Why we go there?”
“we will hide in ball-pit & eat until i tink plan for smol tings safety.”
smol ting walked to ballpit.
everybody began to follow.
duk packed several Happy Meal Ty Beanie Babies in his Supersize Meal bag & joined
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10. rug’d
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back at Internet Computer,
everybody watching fox play Star FTX
jet-flying, lazr-blasting, big gaming.
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suddenly,
Fox barrel roll’d 3 klingon blasters
& once 360’d, emergency-boost’d out jet
~ in raw space ~
catching 1 60K BTC in the game
along a parabola out screen,
rug bundled under arm,
from which fox unrolled a path of gold coins.
“This the top,”
said Fox, who looked to screen,
“A block has gone bust.”
Fox pointed to the candle of suspect,
but in all the excitement & hoorahs
of the 60K coin-value-capture,
cool cats didn’t quite yet catch.
& then the price of internet coin started dropping.
“wat ~”
“w t f ~”
“wat happening!?”
price of internet coin dropped.
next thing, was 55 K.
anxiety began mounting.
next moment, 49K.
panic creeping.
coin value kept dropping.
nerves in room, budding,
punks, cool cats, & apes,
incredulous, watching.
“how could it be?”
while gang argued & discussed, cat stepped to fox.
“wat fox see in there?”
fox looked to screen.
“by the looks of money matrix,
a major mining block got rekt, went down,
network bust caused FUD, nomo hodl, across internet computer.”
at the word of such,
cat was nonplussed.
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“v bad in cat opinion,”
said cat,
“bad feeling dis may be war.”
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