The SweetMan Surprise(s)

A Story by Abishai100

A New Englander finds a 'magical oddity' at a video-game store he regulars and thinks of real civilization dates.

An offbeat consumerism-experience New England 'everyman tale' inspired by It Could Happen to You (Nicolas Cage).

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Boston (New England) is a quaint and traffic-colored place to experience for anyone interested in the textures/personality of Western civilization.

A very affable photojournalist named Nic lives in Boston (New England) and walks everyday after work with his Bugle-buddy Jameson to a popular Boston video-game store called GameStop(s). Nic gets to the store and peruses the newest selections or old/used games for sale and decides what he's going to actually purchase that month for his ever-enhancing video-game collection for play or friend-trades!

One day, while at the Boston video-game store, Nic/Jameson are told by the merchant/owner they've got a brand new 'experimental' game at their branch this month, which features a play-space involving armed/masked 'recruits' commissioned to infiltrate sectarian troubled villages/towns in Northern Ireland and seek to 'attack' British police-military strongholds for a subversion of governance movement(s) ahead of Parliament negotiations about unemployment assistance. Nic/Jameson are truly 'shocked' such a 'politically-charged' video-game is now available to the everyday/affable American consumer, but the merchant/owner explains the 'IRA video-game' is nothing that 'different' from, say, Grand-Theft Auto, and simply represents a worldly understanding of the 'design' of cyber-dowries!

NIC: Friend, did you have any 'idea' that politics is now a video-game adventure?

JAMESON: Why now, you might ask, but we'd have Leisure Suit Larry in the '90s (adult media)!

NIC: Well, maybe there'll be some 'quaint' inter-religious politics education among Boston youth now.

JAMESON: That's the real hope, Nic.

NIC: I had no idea consumerism was going to be this...distancing.

JAMESON: Hail to video-game detention!

Nic, our affable Boston (New England) photojournalist and video-game consumer/fan, now had to go to a special Boston cemetery where he prayed and left flowers in front of the grave-sites/tomb-stones of Irish-Catholic residents/citizens of Boston (New England) killed in car accidents, offering up a special/affable modern 'prayer' about the things that comprise civilization sentiment/daring and hope in times of traffic fear and pain. Nic thought commerce might ironically 'elevate' the human ditch dilemma of shared hellmouths.