The Little Boy Cries Woof

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The emperor is buck naked, but what you think happens next doesn't. Just as this little boy opens up his mouth, our two stories merge. The narrative streams crosh and with a flash and a tang, the little boy who shouts out that the emperor has no clothes, disappears. And in his place, now leaning out the window, is thelittle boy who cried wolf. Because while it may look to us that the world's all mixed up, the emperor knows that he's got it made. He's got nothing to fear from a boy who cries woof.

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