The Heady Siren

A Story by Abishai100

Amlan tries to get over the shock of divorce in Philly with a Library-Jersey 'vision' for restoration but may discover a 'new' hatred!

A tale of unusual romance and self-contemplation, inspired by To Gillian on her 37th birthday (Michelle Pfeiffer).

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Amlan Satan divorced his first wife (Ezzy) in Philadelphia and moved to South Jersey and became part of a theater homeschooling venture called NewActiVision in the spring of 2023. However, he couldn't help feeling that he wouldn't be able to 'simply' transcend this haunting feeling created by his first 'true' love. He met Ezzy in the Penn area and fell in love and never 'dreamed' he'd be the sort of person who'd be part of a separation from love. He posted on social-media, "I'm still interested in American ladies interested in local sports-fanfare/gears the way Ezzy seemed to emanate!"

NEW-ACTIVISION: "We're quite pleased with the levels/quality of teaching/media work by Mr. Amlan Satan who's quite the extra-ordinary educator/entertainer with a flair for social-media/'Selfie' culture personality-driven self-representation (for theater-hyperbole!)."

Despite his newfound life-success and social-media activity energy and 'general' happiness in South Jersey, Prince Amlan still felt lonely and sought to rekindle his feelings of romance with someone new, to help him get over the shocking divorce in Philadelphia (Ezzy). For this reason, he decided to start frequenting the local Public-Jersey library (Vogelson) where he'd do part-time study for NewActivision projects/blueprints and perhaps (just maybe!) meet a beautiful new lady in his life, someone interested in social media, arts, and general American storytelling. That's just what happened.

SHELBYE: Do you like the color red?
AMLAN: Indeed (I do); but I guess I prefer the color blue!

SHELBYE: I love red; in fact, it's my favorite thing on Earth.

AMLAN: The color of blood, the color of deep passion, no?
SHELBYE: Indeed, good fellow; I want to gift you a painting.

AMLAN: You mean, for my NewActivision materials (eh)?

SHELBYE: You'd find if an excellent feather, sweetheart.

AMLAN: Sure, I would (I'm sure)...thanks, Shelbye; quite smart.

It was in that South Jersey public-library that Amlan met the 2nd-love of his life, a woman-in-red named Shelbye who moved to America from the UK (Northern Ireland). Shelbye loved the color red and gifted Satan this extraordinary painting of a dashing 'siren' dressed in a shocking red-dress and in cool back-pose and hoped he'd use it for a school/theater presentation about Spanish dancing, which he decided would be very smart! They fell in love and visited the library (together) every Sunday afternoon for NewActivision projects/blueprints work. He realized the library would help him forget Ezzy/Philadelphia (wow).

One year later, just before they were about to get married, Shelbye died (in a car accident!). Amlan Satan was devastated. He thought his life trauma (Philadelphia) was (finally) healed/transcended. She gifted him this special/eerie alien-invader sci-fi media themed chess-set right before she died in that tragic Jersey highway car-crash, and he decided to use it for a NewActivision endeavor involving superstitions about dominion sovereignty and fears of invasion in the post-9/11 era of terrorism-storytelling, and he mourned and honored Shelbye's 'red' memory with this school activity (hmm).

While driving by an official military/academy funeral at a New Jersey cemetery, Amlan Satan noticed the apparition of a stranger form of woman-in-red, the apparition resembling the very-same image/portrait of the red-dress dark-haired lady from the painting Shelbye'd gifted him before her tragic departure from Earth. Amlan wondered what this 'hallucination' (certainly) signified, and he 'swore' the apparition, of the woman from the painting, by the funeral ceremony, was of Shelbye herself! Had she become some sort of 'true' siren-of-haunting in the afterlife? He'd always wonder if his life of fortune/education was somehow an indication for his magnetic 'pull' towards the stranger 'after-image' definitions of romance (or the Ego!).