The city of New York, once beautiful and teaming with activity, had become run down and gloomy. The streets that we grew up on had become cold, unforgiving strangers.
For those who don't have any money, which was about 80% of the entire United States population now a days, were finding it hard to carry on.
That's the predicament we're in.
Ever since the second Great Depression hit and sent both the economy and the government plummeting straight to hell, my two best friends and I have been finding it extremely difficult to survive.
Moon and Cake had already lost their families to starvation and I hadn't had a family other than these two since I was 16, and we had begun to think that we would soon share the same fate. Things were looking grim.
Until one little boy thought to be nothing more than a fictional character from a children's story appeared one night and offered us an escape from our bleak future.