On the internet

Go read Andrew Fitzgerald’s new collectively-directed short story. It is weird and wild—and Snark­mar­ket is threaded through it.

Ran­dom sam­ple (the beau­ti­ful thing is that you can select almost any two grafs of Andrew’s story for this purpose):

In the pop­u­lar children’s online role-playing game “Fur City”, a dig­i­tal avatar named Mr. Tum­bles, con­trolled by a 17-year-old Japan­ese girl in Osaka is pac­ing the cob­ble­stone streets. He remem­bers it’s Tues­day and how much he loved last Tues­day. It was cup­cake day at the Sugar Plum Bak­ery, and although Mr. Tum­bles, the local cal­ico kit­ten, was no fan of straw­berry short­cake wrapped in rib­bons and bows, he couldn’t deny that the rabbit-run bak­ery was paws and whiskers above any other estab­lish­ment in Fur City. Today at the Sugar Plum Bak­ery it’s not cup­cake day. The rab­bits told him it was pan­cake day. But he knows it’s Tues­day. Something’s fishy in Fur City.

Something’s fishy on the whole Internet.

This is more than a big in-joke, though; the way it all wraps up is sin­cere and more than a lit­tle wonderful.