THE REUNION MY GOD IT'S FULL OF… WELL NOT STARS EXACTLY, MORE SORT OF CURIOUS BROWN DWARFS

We had arranged to meet at the North Indian Diner in Newtown, our ancient haunt, to speak of times past, and be Men, because my rich friend Silver had read a Medium post about how men needed to reconnect after the pandemic.

I hadn't seen him since 2021, and of course he still looked magnificent, standing there all grey-bearded on King St looking in confusion from his Pixel Fold to the front of what was clearly no longer the North Indian Diner, but was instead now a fusion Korean/Mexican gin bar named GorgeTakei's (sic). “I'm not sure what happened to the North Indian Diner,” Silver said by way of greeting and apology. He held up the Pixel Fold. “You can't get these in Australia, so I think Google Maps is a bit… something?” He opened and closed the phone a few times, because that's what he'd always done to fix his tech. A cloud of unease approached from the south-east. It was the Guerrilla Gamer, the fact of his surviving the pandemic no less…

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