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Rated: 18+ · Interactive · Dark · #1526652
Explores five different shrunken societies and the lives of those within
This choice: ...a five star restaurant. Your town is getting served up piece by piece.  •  Go Back...
Chapter #3

The Beggining of the End

    by: Neo-rodent Author IconMail Icon
The Town of Littlefork in southern Omaha is sleeping soundly. Citizens forget about the state of the world, the fall of the US from world dominance and its ever plummeting economy as they slip into sweet dreams. No doubt many visit in their nighttime wanderings the fairy tale world long ago when American flags flapped all across the globe and the West's interests guided global trade. Much unlike the world today where the vast majority of the US military has been miniturized and resold as toys to Japanese school kids.

You are Steve Harwitz, seventeen year old local good'ole boy, and you're not asleep, not yet anyway. You place another empty beer on the hood of your truck and after a quick tally of its blurry companions you calculate it'll take at least another six pack to knock you out cold. You crack open a cheap watery beer and raise it in salute to the faded American flag hanging over your yard, 'still the greatest nation in the world.' But as soon as you speak the words your memory conjures images from the last decades that defeat all your faith. It seemed like every moment of America's humiliating defeat was forever preserved by that evil tentacled brain: the internet. You chug your beer flushing the images away with alcohol.

Slamming it down, you reach for another when a red light illuminates the sky. You feel yourself rolling off your pick-up, but before you hit the turf, you've already passed out. Your last thought is of one of the images you tried so hard to forget: the famous video of the Washington Monument being miniaturized. You remember the sculpture shrinking like a dick in cold water and above it a red light...
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