Shadow Ticket

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“Reports furthermore beginning to come in from gorcery stores all across the U.S.A. of Radio-Cheez shelf incidents, getting warmer and warmer till eventually exploding, sending once loyal customers running in blind panic down to nearby rivers to throw in all their as yet unexploded jars of the product, which were then carried away buoyant and glowing down stream, sometimes hundreds, even thousands of miles to coastal harbors and ports before detonating against the hulls of ships at anchor, any found still upstream being promptly labelled enemy mines, with duly sworn sharpshooters ordered to fire at them from a safe distance. Fish in the rivers and harbors were briefly puzzled by the bright new scatter of food potential, until deciding, all together the way fish do, that they didn't much care for Radio-Cheez either.”

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“Cheese, oh to be sure cheese is alive. Self-aware, actually, maybe not exactly the way we are, but still more than some clever simulation. We're at a pivot point in the history of food science, a strange new form of life that was deliberately invented, like Doctor Frankenstein or something--”