Nibbles

On the Shelf:	Behind the Counter:
₵$32 Ghost Tobacco (20)	₵$69 Tofu Which Pairs Perfectly with Your Wine (350g)
₵$25 Bloody Mary	₵$24 Cuck Chair
₵$50 El Dorado Green (1/4)	₵$60 Self-Cooking Olive Oil (375 ml)
₵$8 Black Meat (g)	₵$56 Quad-Option Flare Gun
₵$1 Slut Root (kg)	₵$152 Coles Red (10L)
₵$25 Marital Aid Potion	₵$60 Stone 80
₵$35 Quetzalcoatl Feathers (doz.)	₵$255 Brick of Cocaine
₵$5 Blue Roses (doz.)	₵$18 Self Freezing Icecube Tray
₵$60 Mythril (oz.)	₵$71 Water Bottle (Name Pending)
₵$4 BZTCN	₵$54 Mystery Soda

 

This Week's Special:

Seeking subtle flavours, Dorothy cooked a meal with tofu, enokitaki and pinot rosé. Easy had said it was a bit plain. She came to on kitchen floor, not understanding her own hand’s gibberish on ceiling but regretting it regardless. A bowl of Nibbles was untouched on counter.

But what are Nibbles? Nibbles are the finger food pinched between said fingers when mouth and again-said fingers are busy. Nibbles are an indication of boredom because there is no other reason to eat them. Nibbles bestow a pale lime-green aura around the consumer’s head, visible to all but noticed only by the host.

The market for Nibbles is insecure about their hosting abilities. This may be because get-togethers were once easy to organise and now there is a dearth. They hope that another get-together will redeem whatever past hosting transgressions they committed. They believe that Nibbles will not go stale before this happens.

That market is Jessica.

Having scored poorly in high school English, Jessica concluded that the arts were useless and is sticking to her guns. She trains A.I. but not to write or draw because there are B.A. kids ready to waste their potential. She instead trains Artificial Intelligences to raise families in order to prove that childrearing is not that hard.

Jessica has developed five AI:

·       A has a partner and two children

·       B has a partner, a child and oenophilia growing alongside child

·       C has partner who has a child who has a child.

·       D has a partner

·       E does not have a partner but lives with boomer parents

All of the above projects have failed, learned and are still failing (except for E). Blame that on the cost of living. Jessica suspects that this is a problem of siloing and tries to get the AI to communicate. She gives up on the third attempt and trains another AI to do it for her.

Project F can organise a piss-up in a brewery – it can be applied to meat intelligences, given phone numbers. Jessica figures the target demographic for Project F is the millennial halfway-point between druggie and white-picket socials feed. Dropkicks gonna’ dropkick with other dropkicks, a phenomenon otherwise known as ‘community’. At the other end: he is a tradie/chef, she is a nurse/teacher, their friends likewise ad nauseum like mass-produced magnetic tiles.

That market is Dorothy.