Strangers-of-Echelon

Two pals from Dartmouth (Amlan/Marcus) create a suburbia-studio for sports-arts and are visited by a stranger character who insists they defend Homeland vanity (somehow).

A world residential paranoia yarn about inventions in media-culture lifestyle 'linked' with invasion and terror language, drawn loosely from the excellent domestic-life disorientations film-series The Strangers, which is about to see a new trilogy-installment (Renny Harlin). Thanks for reading! 

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AMLAN: Seems we're the ideal pals from Dartmouth for this suburb-studio sports-project!

MARCUS: We're surely Facebook like 'diplomats' of sports-matrix superstitions-language(s).

AMLAN: This suburbia-town (Echelon) shared house is the right-stuff for secured art-work.

MARCUS: It's the right-area, pal; local sports-lore, nearby Philly-sports legend-thematics.

AMLAN: Hopefully we see no 'stranger' element in this ripe social media suburb book.

Well, Amlan and Marcus, pals from Dartmouth, decided to take up earnings and move into a shared suburbia-townhouse in a small town with shopping malls, a library, eateries, gyms, super markets, and small hotels called Echelon, where they spent time working (now) on sports superstition concepts for writing/arts (online) and quickly became summertime cyber-cult following 'faves' for sportsmanship image in South-Jersey and Philly storyboards for sports (football, basketball). In deeds, their life had become an American Homeland haven for sports-fanfare, and Echelon was their newfound area of bureaucracy-readings (wow).

STRANGER: Knock, knock.

AMLAN/MARCUS: Why're you in a mask, stranger?
STRANGER: You keep door chained for slit-vision conversation, scaredy-cats.
AMLAN/MARCUS: What do you want?
STRANGER: I've read your sports-stuff online, pals.
AMLAN/MARCUS: Aha, a fan of Phllly-Jersey superstitions, stranger?
STRANGER: More than a fan...a hater.
AMLAN/MARCUS: Hater...you hate us.
STRANGER: I want you to procure special football-trophy items for thanksgiving.
AMLAN/MARCUS: If we fail?
STRANGER: I'll burn your house down like the wolfen-man I've become (masked!).
AMLAN/MARCUS: We've actually two Thanksgiving-TV culture Bowl-premonitions items.
STRANGER: Let's see it...for your sake, pals.
AMLAN/MARCUS: Good (we'll get them...Facebook like).

Amlan and Marcus miraculously happened to have to ideal sportsmanship-matrix 'trophy' items reflective of Thanksgiving-TV culture (football) and Super Bowl 'premonitions' net-activity/commentary, a Detroit-city QB-rookie gem of Bowl anticipations 'value' and a future-career Cali-Bowl memoir of an eventual champion-laurel earner (same athlete!). The rookie-card was signed by the American Homeland superstar (wow).

STRANGER: Aha, two thanksgiving-sportsmanship trophies for value(s).
AMLAN/MARCUS: Well, we've procured the items requested, one signed, stranger!
STRANGER: I suppose I shall passover your fine suburbia-townhome for empathy.
AMLAN/MARCUS: What was all this about (actually)?
STRANGER: I'm no one; I'm masked; I embody a mod-Earth antisocial 'angst' for Hell.
AMLAN/MARCUS: Why us?
STRANGER: Had you failed to offer trophy-image handshakes, I'd not consent to empathy.
AMLAN/MARCUS: Well...that's a relief (actually), but why did you criticize our work(s)?

STRANGER: You're social media age diplomats; I wanted proof of your 'living' passion.
AMLAN/MARCUS: The Passion of the Christ, stranger?
STRANGER: If you 'chat' like Mel Gibson, you better wear the American crown of it, pals.
AMLAN/MARCUS: We feel ominously like we've been approached by the AntiChrist.

STRANGER: You said it, suburb-pals; you needed to succeed for stranger sportsmanship.

Upon conceding 'passover' and non-persecution, the masked Stranger decided to gift Amlan/Marcus a special graphic comics-print mini-card of a fiery siren-witch woman from horror-comics of the sci-fi variation(s) and instructed them to derive a special fortune-reading tale about inventions in sports-luck and ambition yielding a special 'flare' for bureaucracy and Romanticism's (unique) graphic fantasy for downright immortality field goals (wow).

AMLAN: That devilish stranger character draws us to the 'leviathan' of dialysis.

MARCUS: Perchance a test for Bartleby himself...helmet-break.

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). 

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