Platforms like YouTube and Vimeo rely heavily on watch history. If a viewer has watched parts 1 through 5, the algorithm prioritizes serving them part 6—making structural continuity vital.

: A DC Comics character who is a surreal, sanitized clone of Superman.

Outside the bathhouse, rain picks at the puddle Eddie watched earlier. The reflection of the sky blurs, becomes a smear of silver. The Shower Boys climb onto their bikes and pedal away one by one, leaving behind chalk maps and half-finished murals, a town a little more worn and a little less certain — which, in a place that had pretended certainty forever, is its own kind of improvement.