Rabbit's Watch

A Story by Abishai100

Haddonfield artists are 'invaded' by a strange 'clan' lurking in the woods and inspire a new 'brand' of survival-based lines.

A modern Earth paranoia-vignette inspired (much!) by The Strangers (Liv Tyler).

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Amlan/Ezzy moved into their new Haddonfield-Jersey 'domain' of those 'incomplete-distances' to traffic/lifestyle confidence for insurance and bread in the post-9/11 era Homeland (America). They'd considered their new home a special photo-synthesis for inspirations in superstition-writing for capitalism-race 'comforts' and magic and even mysteries in this new millennium of 'surfaced' forms of antisocial terrorism/wars/piracy (e.g., Russo-Ukraine War).

AMLAN: I'll turn the den into a studio for writing; you'll help me enhance my tales.

EZZY: Excellence, bud; I'll complement the magic-tales of darkness with lyric(s).

AMLAN: This is great...convenience-culture and Homeland restorations for art(s).

EZZY: I'm feeling (more) 'comfy' about Haddonfield's readings for social-media IQ.

AMLAN: Me too!

Amlan's first story concerned his protagonist prince-hero ('Shadow') who'd been assigned to work with a new femme-partner named Isobel who'd become something of a 'chess-master' and designed a mock challenge for a ruthless diamond-investor in Crimea and British Columbia with a 'careful' synthetic mimicking memorized reactions for strategy-moves and frustrated the evil baron. This was surely a 'game' approach to modern intelligence for defenses and the final-act concerned Shadow/Isobel settling down in New England for special memoirs of what they fought for --- Homeland residential (bureaucratic!) leviathan securities (and bread).

AMLAN: Did you spot them too (this rabbit-mask clan) in the woods (Haddonfield)?

EZZY: I sure did, bud; I was driving home in the afternoon and saw them 'arranged.'

AMLAN: They're just standing around...a whole clan...in rabbit-masks...in a forest!

EZZY: Sounds like our Homeland art(s) 'mission' is 'spiced' by strangers, bud.

AMLAN: Do you think any of them followed you (to our home)?

EZZY: Nah...I think they just like offering some woods-goosebumps, Mr. Satan.

AMLAN: You're such an encouraging wife, Mrs. Satan; I'll write a rabbit-clan tale.

EZZY: Is that wise?
AMLAN: What's this?
EZZY: This might be some 'omen' offered by those eerie folks; keep them private?

AMLAN: Nah...they're perhaps simply 'circus' minded ghouls of the Jersey-Forest.

EZZY: Alright (good).

What did these Rabbit-mask wearing 'folks' of the woods by the Haddonfield-Jersey home of Amlan/Ezzy want, and why were they 'spooking' that area of the Homeland in these times of 'troubles' and paranoia about everyday-life and exchange and arts and commerce and American sanity? Not since Pearl Harbor had America felt the 'pinch' of territory-disaster by foreign minds, and 9/11 shocked American sensibilities about the 'sanctity' of Homeland pockets-of-life, and now these Rabbit-weirdos were making 'undesirable' (if 'untouchable') worry in Haddonfield. Amlan wondered if he'd consider Ezzy's advice about keeping the Rabbits private more seriously! Was this a terrorism-consciousness 'age' of incomplete-distances to Earth's materialism?

RABBITS: We're here to force you to watch Unbreakable.

AMLAN/EZZY: What's this invasion of our home in Jersey, strangers?
RABBITS: We came to you...because you're home.

AMLAN/EZZY: Why this M. Night Shyamalan film, strangers?

RABBITS: It's about stalkers and genius; the nature of American insanity.

AMLAN/EZZY: A message about mod-Homeland consciousness, for American-chess.

RABBITS: You said it; we require you to watch...before we bloody-murder you.

AMLAN/EZZY: Well, we'll watch with you (for you), but we'll keep this secret (ok?).

RABBITS: Alright, we'll spare you life; but Amlan has to write about this examination!

AMLAN/EZZY: Fine (for social media).

Amlan and Ezzy made 'toast' for their miracle-pardon at the hands of the evil Rabbits that night in Haddonfield-Jersey time with a 'world-exchange' symbolic soft/zesty (Indian) luchi-bread thanksgiving-diner plate chat(s) to complement their story-write (for arts!) on the cyber-highway about the 'ordeal' they survived and the quality of 'psychology' derived from their 'stranger-experience' for memoir(s). They'd considered what they experienced as a hand-write for (all) things...'American' (or leviathan).