All I Want… SINtenDOG by Kris P. Kreme
Molly and Jake share a small apartment and this year the holidays are tense. After subtly hinting that she’d like a puppy for Christmas, hinting with stickers, shirts, even playing a video game called simply DOG, Molly has finally given up that Jake will understand.
All he has been inspired to do is change his text tone to Jingle Bells dog barking, and that causes an argument resulting in Jake sleeping on the couch as Molly goes to play her game in their bedroom.
But under the Santa Star, every wish can come true… twisted as it might get, and Jake wishes Molly were playing a SINtendo game instead. But when she loses at the game SINtenDOG, will their relationship really start howling?
Things may always be tense around the holidays, but in the small cramped apartment she shares with her boyfriend Jake, Molly has never felt the tension pushing her over the edge like it is this year. And most of that is because her boyfriend is clueless… not to mention the ridiculous little Jingle Bell barking dogs tune he set as his text tone alert for the month of December this year.
It’s that text tone that finally pushes Molly over the edge one night at dinner, the constant inane texts from Jake’s stupid buddies, the way that little Jingle Bells barking dog tune goes off again and again. An argument erupts during which Jake, clueless as ever, mentions he thought Molly liked dogs, since she has been putting funny dog stickers on calendars, wearing puppy shirts, even playing a video game named DOG all the time lately.
But Molly, realizing the lack of subtlety in Jake’s simplistic mind, finally just tells him that she was trying to hint that he give her a puppy for Christmas. Unfortunately when Jake tries to calm her down, making a silly joke, the argument does not resolve… and so Jake is sent to sleep on an uncomfortable couch in the living room where the blinding bright Santa Star outside is sure to keep him awake.
Following her to the bedroom, letting Molly hand him his pillow, Jake asks her about the game she plays all the time lately, and that is when Molly explains that it is an independent game called DOG, one she has to wear headphones while playing because they don’t have surround sound.
Apparently in the game she guides her character through a forest avoiding the genetic mutant dogs stalking her. Little barks from one direction or the other warn and provide her the chance to carefully direct the character, reaching the end. If the mutant dogs catch her, they bite and infect, turning the character into a mutant dog too.
As silly as the game sounds to Jake, the conversation doesn’t change that he is sleeping on the couch while Molly is in the bedroom, door closed, playing DOG all night. But after a drunk call from his buddies and the slurred suggestion that he make a wish on the Santa Star, Jake is laying there underneath the light of that comet which comes every year for 25 days in December… and he makes a wish based on the only kind of gaming that might get him out of the doghouse with Molly. Jake wishes she were playing a SINtendo game.
And as she enjoyably focused on her video game, reaching Level 11, having mastered the art of avoiding the mutant dogs in the game, Molly is a little confused why Level 11 has a different title listed above it… the title SINtenDOG.
Through a beautifully rendered midnight forest under a heavy moon, Molly is directing her pixelated character, but shockingly the difficulty has ramped up considerably, barking sounds from all sides making it difficult to maneuver and escape them. And when for the first time she finds herself struggling to defeat them… one of them actually bites her character, Molly somehow feels the same bite, even though her skin looks unaffected.
Losing the game for the first time ever, Molly is horrified to somehow feel the actual growth of a tail and transformation into a mutant infected dog just like her character, but nothing is changing. She is fine… or is she?
Getting her first Game Over screen, thanked for playing SINtenDOG, Molly is feeling very conflicted about what she saw happen to her game character… perverse twisted things underneath those big mutant dogs. But after she passes out on the bed, will Jake wake her the next day and find his girlfriend definitely in a much better mood? Has losing the game somehow sent Molly into heat, especially when his Jingle Bell dog barking text tune goes off on his phone again?
Find out in the very first crossover between the worlds of All I Want… where wishes get twisted, and SINtendo, where all gaming is twisted and losing can be winning for everyone. But even this game has a twisted ending like no other, another wish made… one that might just have Jake giving his girlfriend a bone like no other.
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