Red Stars

Narrated 'claim' of a real-life 'James Bond' character whose ideations of social-media, capitalism, and sports-fanfare might draw him out of the 'slope(s)' of electrocutioners.

An homage to classic patriotism, inspired by Frank Capra movies and James Bond fare/media. Enjoy, 

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I'd been working as a blood-diamond operationalist in piracy-troubled Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) and worked with Parliament and Sinn Fein agency to secure street-monitors for gem-traffic underground complicating affirmative-action employment assistance programs for Catholics-Protestants in Belfast who'd been expressing forms of poverty on social-media (e.g., Facebook-chess).

As the blood-diamond operationalist with the FIRA-alias 'Storm-Shadow' in Northern Ireland (UK), I intercept smugglers-vehicles to secure the gem-highways for modern merchants troubled by sullied gems shuffled into the mainstream diamond market.

However all this adventure-danger in the dominion of diamond-IQ made me want to retire and enjoy social-media (e.g., Facebook-chess) apps like a normal human being on Earth and perhaps get into some normal hobby like baseball-treasure/cards collecting instead of all this 'street-lore' about piracy-agenda intelligence in the modern United Kingdom (wow).

That's when I saw the miracle(s) before my eyes, when I visited a baseball-store in New England during my visit to the Friends of Sinn Fein in Boston. The merchant of the baseball-cards store explained he had a mint-condition/vintage 1990 (Upper-Deck) Reds team trade cards, featuring those 'incredible' underdogs who shocked the world and the dominant A's of Oakland that baseball-season and redeemed their 'troubled' franchise/organization hampered in modern media by the Pete Rose scandal-era. Cincinnati after all boasted multiple high-profile teams in football and baseball (Browns, Bengals, Indians, Reds).

I decided to quit my life as a chess-IQ intelligence-man of diamonds in the modern-UK and manage my own sports-treasure and toy-store, perhaps in Seattle or Chicago (United States!). One of the 'diadems' I'd toast/boast of course is that fantastic Upper-Deck Series set (1990) which brought back much needed patriotism for the city of Cincinnati (Ohio) in the late-20th Century and reminded all Americans of the 'human-joys' of imaginarium-trophies.

For this post-9/11 era of inventive commerce-bridges to peace and securities and threats to overground mainstream commerce/consumerism/media created by 'hackers' or rogue terrorism, a baseball-treasure, like a Series trade-set or a baseball-figurine ('authentic') chess-set/board would remind any 'cool' blue American of the simple accessibility of human humilities (ha).

If a Martian hiding on the moon and spying on humans was 'eyeing' me and my strange 'James Bond' life, he might comment that I'd been seeking a way-out of hell to settle down with my Irish-Catholic girl (Boston) and showcase my baseball treasure(s) to kids in New England, a right toast for Earth-civilization diagonals. What do you think?

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)