The Crikeytown Cancellations (short story)

 was the tenth and final story in The Boulevard: Volume One.

Summary
Note here that the story is told as if it were a transcription of a comic, focusing on individual scenes and dialogue within discrete panels.

Panels 1-7
At Crikeytown Comprehensive, the slobs and the snobs sit on opposite sides of the room as their teacher, Miss Snatcher, informs them all that they're being forced to perform in a performance of Macbeth that afternoon for the Mayor of Crikeytown. The slobs are frustrated, as their plan to go to the arcade that day has been ruined, but the snobs are elated, more work for the teacher always helps, and thanks to their family connections they get the best parts in the play. Tommy the Terror slips some pills into the snobs ginger beer during rehearsal. That evening, as the play begins, the snobs playing the Three Witches have uncontrollable gas and force the play to be canceled.

Panels 8-15
In the arcade the slobs play games against each other, Naughty Nancy losing to Tommy, and Zeke the Sneak reading a list of cheat codes in the corner. Three new slobs show up, Jill Thrill, Babyface, and Stu Spencer, all of whom act in ways different from the rest of the cast. Jill is a daredevil racer, Babyface is a wrestling baby, and Stu is an influencer. The appearance of these three prompts The Reader to wonder how they just showed up. As this happens, Tommy regenerates, as does the whole of Crikeytown. People change to keep up with the times, and those that can't adapt are... Replaced.

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