The Carrom Dough

Can a table-version of billiards prompt two 'tourists' to a foreign Carrom-tourney 'ghost-magic' for a hospitality-reading...in discourse?

A love-letter to the execution-game of Carrom (finger-shooting version of billiards/pool). 

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Amlan and Raki decided to zoom to Asia for a special subcontinent tourney of Carrom, a special tabletop-rendition of billiards in which players use finger-strikes for aim to slide circular pieces (usually made of wood) into table-board pockets on 4 corners of the square area, to see which player/team can sink all of his/her/its colored side piece (white or black) before the other, all the while going for the ultimate piece, the red-queen piece (comparable to the 8-ball in billiards/pool). Amlan hailed from India and Raki from Holland, and they'd been friends from Dartmouth and sought a cool Carrom-gamesmanship storyboard about incomplete sportsmanship intrigue for Selfie-culture commentary about comforts...and contests (ha).

AMLAN: I plan to win this tourney and meet a gorgeous tourney-sponsored ad-model, pal!

RAKI: Sounds good, but for tourists and social-media photo-synthesis, you must find chess.

AMLAN: Carrom ain't chess...though it's as arguably perfunctory and 'slick' for mentalism!

RAKI: Thanx for teaching me to play, man; we'll make a good-team (Asia).

AMLAN: You said it; Facebook like.

When the two 'worldly' gents landed in the Asian subcontinent of the tourney-destination, they were driven to their special guest-house where the tourney sponsored special foreign competitors, to see who'd travel from afar to challenge the favorite-champion, Abhishek (for real estate ads!).

ABHISHEK: I can't lose; my signature rebound shot (like in pool) is fast/statistical.

INTERVIEW: There's a plethora of visitors from Earth seeking to destabilize the Crown.

ABHISHEK: We shall see if they match the tandem I've organized, with my femme-partner.

INTERVIEW: Fascinating; few champs (Carrom), men, choose female partners for team!

ABHISHEK: I don't doubt any margin of excellence...bring on the stranger characters.
INTERVIEW: Facebook like!

AMLAN: Look at that incredible gorgeous tourney-sponsored ad model, Raki.

RAKI: Well, seek the court post-deed and a trophy to boast in this foreign place, Amlan.

AMLAN: Don't look so nervous, man...Abhishek's femme-partner will be matched by you.

RAKI: She's a small-shot executioner, Amlan.

AMLAN: Hey, didn't I train you to think of that wood-board as lines-for-decisions?

RAKI: Surely (ok).

They won. Amlan and Raki shocked the tourney-sponsors, fans, cheerleaders, and writers with a swift close-victory in nearly every round of the Asian-tourney to reach the Championship, where Raki managed to match Abhishek's femme-partner (Asha) for her small-shot precision with tediously calm line-shots for either pocket-shots or board-piece placement diagonal (wow). Finally, with the last 2 turns in the hands of Abhishek/Amlan, the champion of fave-media did his tried-true rebound shot twice but missed the 2nd one, while Amlan used a special 'angle-depth' he'd been working on in the States to put-away the last 3 (white) pieces for his side/team and claimed the unbelievably 'distant' trophy (for social media and photo-graphics).

RAKI: What was the achievement, pal?

AMLAN: Ad-model court for post-deed storytellers (and for me).

RAKI: The humility of definition wrought from sportsmanship, eh?

AMLAN: Only on Earth (Facebook like).

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). 

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)