Draft RETURN OF THE RED WOMEN WARRIORS, REDUX III / July 2025 DRAFT
DRAFT III
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Roman à clef, cher!
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by Leonard Earl Johnson
of Lafayette and New Orleans, Louisiana
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July 2025
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"On time, the old fashioned kind, is not in our vocabulary," she says, pulling down the front bill of her big red hat.
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Just then, the train whistled in the near-distance, and the Red Women Warriors grab the green alligator briefcase and run under the clock and up to the loading platform. Amtrak doesn't stop long in Lafayette whether on time or not.
Inside the last coach, the three shove their bags into the boarding deck's storage rack and scramble up the ladders to the top deck. They rush along the aisle past the seated passengers, and dance down the steps of the forward car to the comforting snack, coffee, beer, wine, and whisky bar below.
The train jerks forward, then softly rolls off towards New Orleans, Louisiana's notorious Big Swamp City.
They are traveling into Big Swamp City after viewing America's July 4th fireworks in Lafayette's Parc International. They are now going to New Orleans to celebrate July 14th's French National Bastille Day, and to gather free bread offered on Bastille Day at Café La Madeleine ~ for those wearing the French tricolors.
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Each Warrior Woman has added a red, white, and blue pompom to their hat.
"If you dine in, they give you real butter and jam," the three tell each other, "and delicious coffee."
At a table set aboard the train under a huge glass canopy they open their green alligator briefcase and extract the clear plastic cube containing the frozen Republican Snow Ball.
A
talkative
judge
and his quiet Wife ~ on tour from Sydney Australia ~ pick out two of the Warriors' proffered campaign stickers.
One reads, "Street Gorillas for Peace," the other, "Turn Back Voter Turnout."
"Traveling to the Upper Earth is a dream of most all Australians," the Judge tells the three women. "Isn't that right, Duck," he says to his Wife, who nods agreement.
"We like taking Amtrak across America, after hanging sixteen hours in the air from Sydney to Los Angeles," the Wife says, opening her blue Outback frontier-looking knitted teardrop handbag, and extracting an airplane boarding pass to prove her point.
The big red hatted Texan holds up the frozen snowball to prove hers.
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The Judge tells The Donald's Red Warriors,
"We once took Amtrak's Zephier, out of San Francisco to Chicago. In the high Rockies, that run!"
Duck adds, "Unfortunately the train was very late and it was dark during our decent into Denver."
The Aussies say they are "Smitten by America's Brazen Chainsaw Republicans." Also, they admit to being connected supporters of Australia's rabid political exporter to America.
"So pivotally important to your Donald Trump!
"We have two daughters working for Rupert Murdock's American Dream division.
"We all know. Still, here you sit,
US TOO, FOR THE MOMENT,
smack in the middle of your Hurricane Season, with Republican government reducing your own satellite weather coverage, and eliminating FEMA recovery support!"
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The big red hatted Texan tells everyone not to worry. "If left dangling from their rooftops, House Speaker Piety Mike will pray for them." 💀🙏💀 |
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