⚓The Day After Mardi Gras / March 2024
~ Fiction ~
Roman à clef, cher
Written with a point of view and
Certified A. I. free
by Leonard Earl Johnson
of Lafayette and New Orleans, Louisiana
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March 2024
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⭐ THE DAY AFTER MARDI GRAS⭐
Continuation of the Red Women Warriors Series
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Snowball at Rêve
first published November 2023, in a slightly different version
by Leonard Earl Johnson
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Abandoned Railroad Baggage Wagon Photo credit, Charles M. Johnson |
Sylvia placed the cube, "For all to see," atop her curbside table, and sat herself in a chair facing the railroad station at the Rosa Parks Centré.
Its handsome clock tower
keept watch over everyone.
Rosa Parks Clock Tower |
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The waitress with dreadlocks and a Café au lait complexion sat cups and a glass French press coffee maker beside the sparkling snowball. "That some softball trophy?" she asked, pushing down the plunger on the coffee press, and pouring the black liquid into white and grey Rêve cups.
Silvia explained it was not. It was a snowball kept frozen in her coaldust-fired green alligator briefcase, To illuminate the Republican mantra:
"Government that governs best is government that doesn't govern at all."
A crackerjack crackling snap of the oracle whip from a Neue Ultra Rechte (German, New Right Wing) Republican Party. American made and grown mighty by the three old-time wedge methods of chaos, extortion, and vigilante rule.
"Pass me that fiery cross, there, son!" the waitress said to no one in particular, as she returned inside.
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Sylvia passed out cards espousing to all who accepted, this
🛹 curiously contradictory message. She even poured a coffee for one young man radiant with the confident aroma of youth ~ and a blue grey skate board.
The Skateboarder accepted, and accidently splashed hot coffee on the Snowball Cube. Paper napkins sopped up the spill. Sunlight dried the cube and set the Snowball inside shimmering. A small drop of moisture rolled down its curve and formed a tiny puddle.
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Lagniappe du Jour
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