The Echelon Card

A Story by Abishai100

A Venusian descends on New England ('Xmastown') for a chess-salesmanship vision linked to a special football-card magic expression.

A 'prize' themed holiday magic fable very loosely inspired by The Gift of the Magi. Enjoy,

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Amlan Satan moved into a quaint New England Xmastown during the holidays and rented a small cottage and invited the townsfolk and single/unmarried young beautiful women to sample his holiday-season cheer exotic cuisine (egg-curry, pistachio-cheesecake, rice-pilaf). However, his guests noticed this new stranger man in town was somehow different in a rather somehow mysterious quality, despite the wonders-rich food he'd offered to his new neighbors/community (hmm).

AMLAN SATAN: Should I reveal to this Xmastown (New England) that I'm a disguised-humanoid from Venus for social-media?

You see, Mr. Satan was a chess-board salesman and offered/sold authentic crafted antique and rare chess-sets/boards from around the globe and across the designs of human civilizations/empires and talked about how Cold-War chess 'social-media' surrounding the Fischer-Spassky rivalry (USA_USSR) cast 'cool' storyboards about stalemate-chess politics IQ and symmetrical intrigue. The townsfolk seemed quite fascinated but wondered why this 'stranger' man was such a 'chess' junkie (ha).

AMLAN SATAN: On the planet of Venus (my home!), I'd been a lonely sorcerer, but on Earth, I'm casting chess-life expressions!

The Xmastown (New England) was quite lovely, and Mr. Satan made himself a good home there and also started dating a beautiful young bachelorette (Tandy) and showed her his profound understanding of chess-books and ideations of politics-intelligence in human civilization(s) and then took her ice-skating in the local rink during the festive holiday-season, always 'lit' late-at-night (wow).

TANDY: "I'm 'incompletely' in-love, and Mr. Satan (Amlan) is a real 'prince' and profound 'star' of chess-salesmanship, but I want to know his 'dark' secret for social-media/cyber posts about the 'odd' nature of Xmastown encounters with stranger devils."

JOURNAL: The quality of a 'good' Xmas-tree in Xmastown for chess-salesmanship is a bright fireplace den with tree/music.

Amlan had some pretty incredible/fantastic chess-sets, some from archaic worlds and societies and others representing 'spheres' of investments/interests like sports and Medieval lore, and his Xmastown customers, who started steadily growing in size (on Earth); and his cyber-customers, hailing from around the United States (Internet), claimed he was a real 'prince' of chess-quiche. Amlan insisted always that chess revealed a strange 'private' meditation on the cheer/mystery of intelligence...gone expressive.

AMLAN SATAN: We have special cyber-chess contest with the winner grabbing a special sports trade-card trophy expression(!).

So what was this 'amazing' and symbolic chess-contest Amlan Satan the Venusian-humanoid offered to the winner during Xmastown festivity? Why, it was a special Philly-city QB-transfer spirits/market (Upper-Deck) Vikings-Cunningham underdog Super Bowl seasons-card, arguably worth more than its 'extra credit' weight in currency (wow). Mr. Satan called this 'card' a trophy for the Earth-world 'fantasy' of acquired expressions. Was he right?