

They were shorter and the thighs were thicker but all 2D thought was, “Coffee.” His mind still being slightly blurry and his eyes still half-lidded, he barely regarded the fact that his legs weren’t as they had been when he went to bed the previous evening. So, he sat up and hung his legs over the edge of his warm bed. He dismissed the strangeness of it as nothing more than being half-awake and not being able to make things out clearly. The fingers seemed too short and the palm was too small.

It was by this light that Stu, known worldwide as 2D, the singer from the Gorillaz, noticed that something wasn’t quite right about the hand lazily examining his face. His large plasma-screen t.v.s were still on, waiting for a game of pong to be played and they emitted a soft glow in the windowless basement. Sleep was still ruling his brain and until he had some caffeine not much was going to register in his consciousness. His nose, though still upturned, seemed smaller but he didn’t really give it much thought. Somehow, though, it didn’t feel quite right. He groggily opened one and then the other and scratched his nose. A hand slowly reached out to the night table, clicked the "Off" button and then came back to rub the sleep from his eyes.

A soft, staticy radio playing heavy metal rock from the ‘80s stirred Stuart Tusspot from a deep, comfortable sleep. The morning alarm went off like it always did.
