Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Downside to City life

Most of the population of the Wandering City seemed to have it pretty good......as long as you just let Authority do what it was going to do, and didn't fuss about it, then things went along just fine.  But you can't have something so big and so old without having some strange goings on.  I mean stranger than Klub Krazy, or Dream Street.....the "spread singularity" which forms the foundation of the City works in both directions.....the City of Authority is the topside, and the realm beyond the gravity reversal is the Downside.....a very distorted mirror image of the enlightened and proper society of machine acumen and established tradition that has attracted the best and brightest of a thousand worlds for ten thousand ages.....down beneath the glittering towers and bustling commerce of the great City, there is another world altogether.....the world of mystery, strange paths, dark secrets, perversity, sanitation facilities, underground niteclubs, midget wrestling, roller derby, bunco squads, quilting bees, fried chicken necks, disenchanted ancient robots, dice-and-ball played for terminal stakes.....disco bowling alleys.....really creepy lounges....bars that serve only rum cola and catfish sandwiches....burger joints that have used the same grease for fries since before the dawn of Man.....it's pretty awesome Downside on a Saturday night, let me tell yuh....

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