Imogen: New Orleans

Narrated 'vignette' of a hypnotized New Orleans 'stranger' following-around an aspiring beautiful actress and believing she may be an alien/faerie (in disguise!).

A very fun/affable 'fairy-tale' inspired by My Stepmother Is an Alien (Kim Basinger). Hope you like it, 

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My name is Satan (Amlan), and I've been guilty of tracking a peculiar/iconic Western movie actress named Imogen in New Orleans. Every morning, I wake up and wait outside hew NO apartment and wait until she walks outside and to her parked car in the apartment-complex garage and drive out and head to her daily destination(s). Sometimes, Imogen goes to the supermarket and sometimes to the New Orleans movie-studio where she works/aspires to become a major 'celebrity' in the United States. It's the demeanor/mannerism(s) of this iconic and precocious Western movie actress Imogen that's hypnotized me and has drawn me to the unavoidable 'need' to just follow her around everywhere. When I notice what she does or who she meets or where she goes, I take smartphone-camera shots and take diligent if insane notes in my personal diary/notebook. I wonder (honestly) when/how I'll someday (if ever!) approach this non-celebrity and simply greet her and tell her, "It's alright you're not famous yet, because I (personally!) think you're destined for special magazine-world greatness, fair Imogen!" However, I haven't worked up this special courage yet in this modern society we live in, filled with the tribulation(s) of disease, sectarian violence, poverty, global wars, political controversy, and even media strangeness. I remain Imogen's 'avid-fan' and think of myself now as a 'speed-racing' loon chasing the dream of someday greeting her...and I think I'll introduce myself to her as a 'musketeer' of Western depression.

Why a movie-actress draws me to this newfound life of strange tracking obsession is arguably/perhaps beyond the likes of me, because/since perhaps/arguably, I'm irreversibly 'insane' about both Imogen and the world we occupy! What is it about the modern age of media that draws me into the 'imagery-world' of a hypnotizing 'phantom-like' beautiful vision of an aspiring actress, a rising star (in my estimates!) in Hollywood, who (in my opinion!) is slated to make films with the likes of Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, or Leo DiCaprio. I believe this rising phenomenon of the media-world, Imogen, is some kind of 'messenger' of complete socialized distance(s), and I believe I'll discover the underlying 'mechanics' of hypnotizing charm(s) --- the nature of magazine-society art(s). Why do we, for example, 'canonize' images/portraits of terrific media figures in great characters/characterizations found in cinema and television? Have we become 'dependent' on the notion that resurrections of the timeless/ancient storytellings of great heroics or adventures or romance reveal our 'need' to cast 'portraits' of movie/TV personage as symbolic or re-presentative of academic dreams?

AMLAN: I believe you're a goddess...right here in New Orleans.

IMOGEN: Oh no, stranger...I'm not a human at all...I'm a faerie.

AMLAN: What?
IMOGEN: I know you've been following me around here in New Orleans!

AMLAN: So?
IMOGEN: You believe I'm a faerie, then (disguised as a human movie actress)?

AMLAN: Perhaps!

IMOGEN: Continue to follow me then, good stranger...and see what you'll 'discover' about this south-city.

I almost had a heart-attack when I mustered up the mustard-courage to approach this 'faerie' (movie actress beauty vision!) Imogen and asked her if I could get her a cup of coffee and delicious hot dog(s)! I didn't believe Imogen when she claimed she's a faerie (winged humanoids who dwell in Earth-forests and offer messages of warnings/hopes), but why'd she tell me such a 'bizarre' thing? Maybe she's just trying to get rid of me, frighten/shoo away a 'stalker' of the movie-world and focus on her ambition(s)/career! I thought that, I really did. I really did consider that! However, I couldn't put my 'shaky-finger' on such an idea --- of why Imogen would tell me she's a real-life/actual faerie from the Earth-forest(s)! I had no choice but to conclude that I'm completely schizophrenic and Imogen really is a faerie from the woods --- an immortal female! She's here to let me know it's 'OK' to be a stalker as long as I understand/appreciate the reason behind my albeit harmless obsession/hypnosis. I wanted to be a writer, but I couldn't hack it! I'm following around an aspiring beauty-vision actress in New Orleans...because I'm fatally wounded in my heart, and I 'need' the experience of an awakening distance. I won't follow around Imogen anymore...but I'll always believe...she's actually a real faerie.

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)