Half/Half: Boston Dart(s)

A Story by Abishai100

A 'wry' tale of Boston (Mass.) heroics featuring a 'mystery-man' (Shadow) and an evil gang (Warrior) uprooting notions of distance.

A Boston 'fairy-tale' inspired very loosely by the very unusual film The Warriors. Enjoy!

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A man named Shadow rides his bicycle around the complex US city of Boston (Massachusetts) and learns of the special underground intrigue seething because of a new face-painted crime ring known as Warrior.

The city is drenching with rain-water and people are simply depressed, especially because there's horrid rumor(s) that Warrior is composed of Irish-Catholics and Boston otherwise loves the idea of Catholic-based community spirit(s), and this rain is anything but fresh/refreshing.

A vigilante, the one mentioned earlier, Shadow, rides his bicycle around in this context, in Boston (Massachusetts), usually in mask/glasses/hat and wielding a toy water-gun filled with corrosive acid (HCL). You see, Shadow aims his water-pistol, fun 'acid-gun' homemade, at the tires of the van(s) driven by Warrior members and deflates them without them noticing and speeds off late-night still on his bicycle.

BOSTON POST: As Warrior-crime count continues, a mystery-man may be behind the deflation of the gang's van-tires, spelling simultaneous eerie evil by the gang and humiliating street-deflation (tires!) by this vigilante seeking to somehow 'deflate' the mystique/aura of these bad-guys.

Shadow then spray-paints Irish-Catholic insignias all over the walls/trees near and surrounding Boston Park, and it seems that this new 'wave' of art-driven social messaging for Boston has nothing to do with Warrior, which effectively further deflates the 'aura' of the bad-guys!

SHADOW: There's enough Irish-Catholic woe(s) in Belfast (Northern Ireland), so maybe this Boston 'miracle' is the right art!

It's true. Irish-Catholics in 'troubled' Belfast (Northern Ireland, UK) already have sectarian/unemployment issues to cry about, and no one wants further complexity for the modern world Catholic community in fair and 'dreaming' Boston (Massachusetts)!

WARRIOR: If we catch this 'bicycle-man' in our great city of darkness, we'll be sure he's made out to be a 'real' loser.

When Shadow becomes a popular 'avatar' in Boston's various Irish pubs and among the customers/patrons drinking and singing songs to his offbeat charm(s), the unusual vigilante hopes all this modern 'theater' will improve the lights for Catholics around the globe, North America, and perhaps even in the United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)!