Streets of Leviathan

A Story by Abishai100

A brooding 'amateur' basketball 'prodigy' decides to invest his Wall Street winnings in an inner-city 'program' for Homeland's heart-roads.

A city-sportsmanship 'fable' drawing on the modern American culture of competition/values from the deceptively complex modern film The Way Back (Ben Affleck). Thanks so much for reading!

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Amlan Satan had been a very skilled basketball player who never played at any formal team/college/pro level. He simply played here-and-there, in high-school gym class or with college-pals or with community folks in the local court, but every time he played, he delivered performances of sheer awe, and some of his closer friends wondered why he never chose to play for any organized team. Despite never being part of any 'real' team for this great court-field game of teamwork and passing/shooting (basketball), Amlan Satan developed a (secret!) personal love of college-athletics on TV, particularly Duke University ('Blue-Devils') basketball which had become synonymous with media-broadcast era 'chess' excellence in coaching/team-play. Now, as an adult, after making a great fortune on Wall Street (Ford), this Earth-prince of contemplation decided to become an inner-city youth-league/tourney coach, hoping to draw interest from investors in community-activity enhancements on modern social-media (hmm).

JOURNAL: "This interest for inner-city 'street basketball' competition-class storyboards will be complemented by furnishings in great college-team (Duke?) fangear/ornaments, so these 'young-adults' mired in modern Homeland city hellmouths and the 'leviathan' of rebelliousness/troubles ridden social life, will aspire to dreams of media-culture 'chess' and finery/greatness while we pursue a coaching-strategy of excellent team-play and rotating-ball movement shoot-strike athletics-confidence play, to create energy in their hearts and spirits-of-hand all around them, for the audience of these 'dark' American cities (today)."

WIFE: Why'd you 'afford' this Duke-ornaments bedroom-furnishings for Damian?
SATAN: Our son (Damian) should aspire for media-culture education/optimism!

WIFE: Alright; but he need not play basketball (like you!), no?
SATAN: Alright; well, Damian's hand optimism for this currency-exchange (for me).

WIFE: I hope this newfound 'investment' stirs in you some 'real' American hand.

SATAN: Oh, it will, sweetheart...I just feel 'handy' about it (all).

WIFE: Good.

Well, that summer-league activity 'examination' in the prince's 'cool' interest/rating and investments in youth-competition class energizer fundraising and high-hopes for this iconic 'American' game of great field/court pass/shoot hospitality had (fortunately) delivered a rather nice Homeland message of superstitions-friendly teamwork and zoning highness (for all).

SATAN: "That last game against those pesky Bees revealed our 'view' of highs."

WIFE: I feel like I've become your little 'faerie-muse' of city-energy storytelling.

SATAN: You have, Danica; in fact, I'm considering a 'fashion-mosaic' ad-game now.

WIFE: Oh, a perfume/cologne enhancement for fundraising/sponsorship (cool).

SATAN: Maybe these 'street-of-leviathan' reveal something patriotic about hubris.

CYBER-FANZINE: The streets-of-leviathan enhanced by Coach Satan's unique brand of suited coaching and energizer-fundraising offers real view of inner-city promise for this social-media culture of Homeland 'heat' commentary (for all).

WIFE: I got you this book, for your examination of these 'streets-of-leviathan' (now).

SATAN: Wow...seems you're mired in the world-work of your man's spirits, Danica.

WIFE: Oh, I am; hoping to keep you 'abreast' with your own 'demons' of sadness.

SATAN: Yeah; I never played for a team; maybe this book will offer me distraction.

WIFE: Cool.

CITY-TEAM ATHLETE: Coach Satan, I just played a game-recreation on cyber-line.

SATAN: Good, Stuart; was it another Carolina-Duke expo (for you)?

STUART: Yeah, coach; I had the Blue-Devils jersey/spirits for a court-hearing.

SATAN: Man, I wish I had the 'quality' of video-games you guys have (now).

STUART: Ha, yeah (thanks, Mr. Satan).

SATAN: Good, good!

SATAN: Stuart, I got you this b-ball chess-set/toy, for some 'strategy' arts (hmm?).

STUART: Alright; I guess I can think of this one Duke-Indiana game, 'chess' hand.

SATAN: That's the design, guy; life's a 'game' of lines/castles; we're hearing history!

It'd been 10 years since the successes of Amlan Satan's inner-city 'examinations' created much social-media energy/interest and ratings (online) for a Homeland expression for 'choreographed' joys. Now, an older/wiser man, he reflected back on this great 'trophy' of American patriotism and how those old streets of leviathan prompted (in all) that special hospitality-hearing for what makes this challenged Homeland an 'environment' for handshakes --- that 'ghost' magic of heaven.