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Our Fair City

2.10- The Advice at Doctor Moro's

Our Fair City

Audacious Machine Creative

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.7623 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Loamy takes Clay down the winding, wending paths of Old Tunnel, braves murk, mire, and Mold, to visit the wisest Mole this side of the muck.

Narrator — Ansel Burch

Clay— Tyler Samples

Loamy— Lisa Burton

Ol’ Silty— Sebastian H. Orr

Dr. Moro— Mark Soloff

The Mold— Ryan Schile

Written by Jim McDoniel. Directed by Jeffrey Gardner. Sound Design by Ryan Schile. Music by Stephen Poon. Illustration by Dann Tincher.

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0:00.0

Tonight's broadcast is brought to you by the company you depend upon for all of your greatest needs, Heart Life.

0:10.2

These stories are true dramatizations from our fair city's glorious history.

0:15.4

So listen and remember, heart life, all the life you'll ever need.

0:25.6

15 has always been a difficult age. For people, it marks the halfway point.

0:30.6

Halfway to adulthood, halfway through puberty, one's body becomes a grotesque parody of what it will one day be.

0:38.3

Parts that are big, you'd rather be small.

0:41.3

Parts that are small you'd rather be big.

0:43.3

It's as if a person's body is a science experiment, gone horribly wrong, an amorphous blob

0:49.3

of flesh that absorbs all possible food and insults around it. No one understands you. The world is out to get you,

0:58.0

and you are still one year away from driving. Yes, life is hard for a person at 15. A mole person,

1:07.1

however, is a different story entirely. At 15, a mole person enters into Methuselah territory.

1:13.6

All of his friends are dead.

1:15.6

All his children are dead.

1:17.6

Within him rests not only the wisdom of his own experiences,

1:22.6

but that of all mole culture.

1:26.6

There is no matter too big or too small that he would not be willing to give his opinion,

1:31.7

or indeed a long, rambling tale of how he once resolved the same problem by himself,

1:36.3

digging uphill both ways.

1:38.5

Such is a 15-year-old mole.

1:41.0

Such is old silty.

1:44.0

We find Clay and Lomi making their way down a nearly forgotten tunnel.

1:48.3

It is so old that it is composed of ancient building materials, bricks and cobblestones. A fine mist,

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