Philly Treasures

A Story by Abishai100

An epic about city-examinations of adventure and intelligence, tied to a diamond-lore concerning 'real' hospitality.

My magnus-opus on Philadelphia's treasure-island face for modernism vigilance, inspired (loosely) by The Grifters (John Cusack).

DISCLAIMER: The images used herein offer no ties/links to any representative person(s)/body and therefore comprise a purely 'personal' exercise in social hyperbole/invention/writing (for 'open' commentary).

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In the City of Brotherly Love (Philadelphia), also known simply/colloquially as 'Philly' (home of the Eagles/Flyers/Phillies/Sixers), the diamond-thief Amlan Satan (aka, 'Storm-Shadow') had planned an orchestrated bank-box heist of a special journal-rumor blood-diamond baron's smuggled holdings from conflict-zones in Africa.

AMLAN SATAN ('Storm-Shadow'): Blood-diamond traffic 'sullies the quality of the gem-market insurance highways in Philly, and I'm making this media-theater for a conversation on social-media surrounding insurance-quality for the city's Xmas-consumer, leading all the way to Valentine's Day (ha).

Philadelphia had boasted much in media and traffic and commerce to warrant a special examination of the city's treasures and insurance quality, and Amlan Satan, who doubled by day as a city dentist (ha), wished to create a 'cool-customer' view of the nature of capitalism-commerce defenses in the post-9/11 era Homeland and draw in social-media investors/readers seeking to inquire of the blood-diamonds nefarious cyber-glorified diamonds/hospitality (wow).

Storm-Shadow (Amlan Satan) knew that the blood-diamond baron, investing in corrupted conflict-zone gems (Sierra Leone) would wash his 'Philly-Treasures' at the pronounced city gem-store and create an insurance-veil through overground commercial traffic, requiring a new 'form' of media-theater Robin Hood or James Bond character deeds for public reviews of insurance-hubris (hmm).

STORM-SHADOW: "Considering the breadth of asset-holdings in the bank where the gem-baron under review (Ion) is storing his conflict-zone gems (used for 'rogue' terrorism/warlord-zone finances) in Philadelphia, it's no shock that what this Homeland city of the post-9/11 era needs are 'deeds' for everyday overground lenses for the 'gerunds' of treasure-history."

It was said that blood-diamond traffic, in the past, would only affect gem-sales and profits underground in the actual warlord-zones in which they'd been mined (Africa), but pirate-smuggling tied to corrupt politics (abroad) drew some of the 'excess-silos' of these 'dirty-gems' into the already-challenged American Homeland of terrorism-examinations. Storm-Shadow was at an iconic Philly-media hyped pre-Xmas consumerism season college-sports 'event' in which the gem-baron was present to create a media-ad 'laurel' for his new tie with the city's jewelry-merchant firm.

STORM-SHADOW (Amlan Satan): Me thinks this capitalism-race story of socialized activity for commerce/entertainment/education highlights one of the 'faces' of the worst feature of treasure-chess --- neglected (or overlooked) handshakes.

GIRLFRIEND: I've got to appear at the Atlantic-City beach-modeling event out of Philly.

SATAN (Storm-Shadow): Don't fear; this exercise of city-media won't interfere!

GIRLFRIEND: I dream of the day you're a dentist in New Zealand, my prince.

SATAN: Me too...hey, there's always room for non-work time 'social media comforts' for photo-shares.

GIRLFRIEND: Maybe you'll get me an engagement-ring complementing a photo-spread we'll make together.

SATAN: You're such the head-master.

Would Amlan settle down in Europe or New Zealand with his girlfriend and marry and have a son and build him a life-mission reflective pirate-ship model/toy and tell him about the value of capitalism/treasures heroics (or deeds)? Such was the hope of his beloved; but for now, this pirate-sail was a 'distance' hand.

GIRLFRIEND: I got you this exquisite novel about 'wrought' deeds of world-hospitality fantasy.

SATAN (Storm-Shadow): Wow, something to read at the dentist's office, darling!

His girlfriend who happened to be a fashion-model in the City of Brotherly Love and a media-spokeswoman for a new national-cyber diamond-hype ad-campaign tied to Churchill Downs aristocracy/investments wanted to share with her beau a mint-julep drink for the summer, the coming summer, when all this blood-diamond media-theater hellfire was simply in the past...and the two would look to the future for an 'examination' of hospitality's 'cooler' face --- that of pure housing.

The key to this bank heist of blood-diamonds was an inside-man named Yang who worked inside the jewelry-store of Philly tied to the bank where the gem-baron had created this citywide insurance-veil. Amlan showed Yang his 'media-theater' photos of the Philadelphia college-athletics 'event' in which the baron attended for his diamond-showcase 'agenda' for the City of Brotherly Love and persuaded him to help him create a social-media 'ad-mask' for a re-presentation of treasure-securities/confidence hype (with Interpol-relation!).

ION: This 'heist' with insurance-insinuation in this college-media timespan of our diamond-marketing 'agenda' for Philadelphia shows no tracks leading to this 'rapper' (for Interpol-relation).

Storm-Shadow had achieved the impossible, with the assistance (of course!) with his unlikely hero-deed partner (Yang) and inside-man. The City of Brotherly Love now had the 'laurel' of a new 'flock' of (Interpol-relation?) inquirers examining the quality of treasure-insurance journals tied to various media 'rich' markets, including college-athletics events with pronounced commercial supporters/patrons. Was Amlan Satan the modern-day Robin Hood? Fans on social-media would (surely) 'emulate' this 'act' with cooler Halloweentime masks/hospitality.

INTERPOL: Blood-diamond corruption (today) threatens the world-gem exchange and makes 'rogue' terrorism-finance woe.

GIRLFRIEND: Here, I made you this Xmas-consumerism parody-doodle/avatar ("Evil_Elf").

SATAN (Storm-Shadow): Aha, for a cyber-comics fable about wrought capitalism-energy vigilance (eh?).

GIRLFRIEND: Now, you owe me that engagement-ring, my prince.

SATAN: Sure honey; Evil-Elf shall remind me what our next Xmas shows --- 'pure' heart.

Amlan would marry his Philly-treasure and move to Brussels, where they'd have a son (Damian) for whom he'd get an Xmas-time book-gift (Treasure Island) with which he'd share with his boy the capitalism-race 'view' of wrought adventurism sanity (or heart).

SATAN: "Life's a beach...and then you find interest."

GIRLFRIEND/WIFE: You're still just a darling-dentist of Philly, Amlan Satan (to me!).

SATAN: Boy, am I craving some Philadelphia Cream-Cheese (haha)?

DAMIAN: This signed Oliver-Reds (Upper Deck) 'treasure' from Philadelphia's just what I wanted...the eBay seller was such a cool pirate (thanks to the Amazon).