Friday-the-13th: The Baseball Hypnotist

A Story by Abishai100

Two Ivy-pals manage a 'cool' cards-store and tend to two 'unusual' customers leading them to dark victory!

A superstition-themed summertime spook-tale inspired by the amazing Friday the 13th (TV Series). Enjoy,

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A special baseball-cards store in New Jersey (United States) is where a funny pair of Ivy-pals were selling special magical sports-cards for the general American consumer-traveler and didn't anticipate a special visit which wasn't exactly a Facebook-story but rather a 'dark' faerie-tale.

AMLAN: Looks like some regular seasonal traffic for good commercial activity-IQ for New Jersey this summer, bud.

RAKI: I don't even want to sell some of the cards we have now --- just keep it in our collections for posterity or Facebook!

Nevertheless, Amlan/Raki wished to sell their cards at fair prices and make solid-gold profits that season in New Jersey (United States) and therefore cast their special American 'diadems' in their black-box for those interested. Their cards were still treasures to them but now access-items for the public! That's where this tale 'really' beings, folks.

AMLAN: Baseball had become a pastime for excellence in media-broadcast era social-traffic ad.

RAKI: Yeah...the ladies are 'fantastic' and remind us why TV and magazine-era sports-coverage are ultra-American/capitalist.

The magic cards the dealers offered that summer in the United States included a White-Sox, Giants, and Royals card. Amlan/Raki wondered (in all-honesty!) what kinds of customers would be willing to pay 'glittering' trades/dollar(s) for such gems of Earth. The first card was a Robin Ventura rookie-card.

CARD #2: Matt Williams Giants rookie-card.

CARD #3: Greg Gagne rookie-card.

"Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand" (Leo Durocher).

However, the customer-base in New Jersey (United States) that shopping-collection season was anything but normal, folks. In fact, the two visitors included a Martian and a serial-killer. The Martian arrived in a UFO from Canada and trolled around the East Coast invisibly before engaging with Amlan/Raki and flashed them his ship-photo (taken by NASA or the CIA).

ALIEN: I want the Robin Ventura rookie-card, and I'll give you an alien head (from a planet-war chest!) in exchange (Clean).

The second oddball-customer was an Oregon serial-killer called Slash who traveled all the way from the West to land upon Amlan and Raki's iconic NJ-cards dive and desperately wanted the Gagne-Royals piece and was willing to pay them in exchange a magical Aztec-coin he lifted from a hapless hitchhiker traveling from Tijuana to Portland.