The Aquarium

Nils lives alone in a building on a street corner in a rust belt city whose economy boomed sixty years ago. In waves of passing recessions through his life the factories close down one by one until they're all gone, and a grayness now hovers over long and dismal stretches of empty blocks. He has a dog, and a cat. One day the dog runs off, and the cat becomes paranoid and doesn't come out from under the bed, even coaxed with toys and catnip. He is lonely and doesn't know what to do.

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