Chess {Cookie-Angel}: Gatlinburg American

Portrait of an Xmas-miracle of potential and a possible averted disaster for the 'American' Ego.

An homage to what makes Xmastime for iconic American-spirit 'magic' towns like Gatlinburg (Tennessee) reflective of holiday-season faerie-tale 'chess' and inspired (very loosely!) by the iconic townsfolk-charmed Xmas-film Jingle All the Way (Arnold Schwarzenegger), which I hope you like, 

DISCLAIMER: This work of holiday-season storytelling claims no official/commercial/legal ties to the resort/travel town of Gatlinburg and is therefore cast as only a personal (fictional) expression of American derivation(s). 

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I'd been a sweets-and-chess salesman for some time now, offering special crafted chess-boards all over North America to youngsters' parents hoping to make their kids more intrigued by the iconic politics-warfare reflective strategy game of kingdom-themed piece-position movements and stalemate genius for perfect equivalence(s) and often complemented the toy-sales with sweets/cookies, including cases of Pepperidge Farms' 'fantastic' Chessmen Cookie brand. My name's Amlan Satan and I'm a theatrical salesman of the intelligentsia showcase and traveled to Gatlinburg (Tennessee, USA) for an Earth-Xmas 'magic' journey about the quality of capitalism. Follow along.

THE PLAN: Get to the Gatlinburg post-office to meet the lovely-lady worker Ezzy and gift her a case full of Chessmen-Cookies and Xmas-crafter chess-sets/boards and toys for distribution to the kids/adults/councilmen of the iconic holiday-season mountain-resort town of American pride and get a card and social media message/note reading, "Here visited the princely elf of chess delight in Earth's Xmas mail-diary."

ESMERELDA: You claim you're a 'prince' with fortunes and can afford this charity-gift for our Xmas-resort town?
AMLAN SATAN: Yeah...I want your office to distribute the cookies/toys for Gatlinburg youth-Xmas for social-media buzz.

ESMERELDA: You mean to 'craft' yourself as some cyber-salesman 'diplomat' of Xmastime-charities through Gatlinburg?

AMLAN SATAN: It's a 5K rose, minimum, Esmerelda, and the townsfolk benefit of social-media Ego (ha).

ESMERELDA: You sound like a Martian, Mr. Satan.

AMLAN SATAN: Hey, it's all for a good cause...American Facebook (community value!).

The fact that I showed up in an elf-costume is what sealed-the-deal for the Gatlinburg 'proposal' to the beautiful Esmerelda, who knew, like me, why postal-charity initiative for town-Xmas consumerism/toy media would offer a special holiday-season cyber-energizer for Xmas-cards.

ESMERELDA: This guy/prince seemed like a 'real' social-media advocate, and the Gatlinburg council approved the genius!

MAYOR: We'll cast this salesmanship-drive for Xmas-chess theater for consumerism/capitalism a Gatlinburg security drawing.

ESMERELDA: Who doesn't love chess/cookies, and this 'prince' of capitalism-media seemed to offer us a 'miracle' promotion.

MAYOR: "We're pleased to announce this year's light(s)-show for travelers' spirit(s) will 'accent' the chess/cookies miracle-IQ."

However, all was not well in Utopia, for my old past nemesis, Baron Ion, a crooked 'conflict-zone' gem investor tracked me to this magical Xmastown of Gatlinburg, determined to smear my prestige/aura and told the Mayor I was some kind of ex-thespian fanatic who wanted to destroy American town commerce with false-labels and links to the cinema-world.

MAYOR: You're certain this 'theater-prince' of charities for Xmas-media was some kind of betraying thief?
ION: If you check some of the cinema-journals from studios in Cali, good man, you'll find Satan's linking to terrorism-journals.

MAYOR: Wow.

AMLAN SATAN: To the Mayor --- Baron Ion seeks to destroy my charity-mission in America with a false 'deed' about rivalry.

MAYOR: Now that's a relieving revelation, great Prince of Xmas-invention (ha).

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)