No Mo' Cuomo

You’re unsure of what compels you through The Wreath, perhaps it is the pull of a dream half remembered tugging at your thoughts daily with its own peculiar gravity. Or perhaps it is a type of knowing, a truth endemic of your very self. The kind that you had once held in your waking mind, and when the trials of this world came mounting and you began to change, it too had shifted fell through your brain like water, soaked through into thirsty bones. Thirsty like the rest of you, like the rest of us. And so it was. With your bones to guide you—wrapped in flesh, wrapped in a thick still-suit worn to protect from the heat of the outside. You mount your machine, with it’s twin vulcanized rubber wheels (each with a melting point of 200°C), and shoot yourself across what's left of the I-5, weaving out and around the burned out and melted husks of vehicles on the scorched and cracked asphalt toward Burbank. Toward The Wreath. Nobody knows how The Wreath is able to exist. It formed just as it is now, a giant enduring ring of flame a mile high and twenty miles in diameter, birthed one night during the first bout of major climate disasters that shook the Northern Hemisphere. And after a string of the worst wildfires in California history, The Wreath simply came to be. Unquenchable, indomitably it sits just ahead of you now encapsulating the city of Burbank in its entirety, a hellish physical enforcer of county lines.Your bones guide you, they gun the throttle and your machine lets out a throaty howl of delight. As you near the giant wall of fire, the hammer blow of intense heat is absorbed by your still-suit but you feel a few beads of sweat trickle down your brow behind your goggles anyway. You’re close now, but something moves off to your right, somethings you realize as you blaze past. Your stomach drops: B.R.U’s Body-Water Reclamation Units. The robotic creatures unfurl themselves and charge dog-like after you. They’re after your urine, and you don't have nearly enough to pay all the back taxes you owe. So you take a