Strangers: Field-Goal

Newbies to a suburbia encounter masked 'strangers' who door-knock and require an extra credit sportsmanship-culture 'trophy' image to warrant a (special) departure.

A noir adaptation of the themes/concepts from the eerie home-invasion consciousness horror-noir series The Strangers, which incidentally is about to see a reboot. 

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AMLAN: This Homeland-Jersey suburbia-townhouse studio for sports-writing's ideal for us.

RAKI: Perchance we make for nice community greets as we develop our cyber-personae!

AMLAN: I doubt any 'strangers' will appear to complicate our social media culture exercise.

RAKI: What're strangers in social media culture but shadow-figurines passing without mind?

AMLAN: I concur with such Facebook-friendly thinking, but we'll keep humble regardless!

RAKI: There's a space for the 'scream' of lifestyle-perturbance, even for sports-writers, pal.

AMLAN: I concur with such Homeland-Jersey superstition temperance, and we're nerdists.

RAKI: Besides, who'd knock on the door of sports-writers in this Facebook-world of tin-men?

Amlan and Raki had the right premonition-touch after moving into their (shared) new suburbia-townhouse in an American Homeland suburbia-town called Echelon and swiftly turned their (shared) home into a superstitions-sports culture studio for language-arts for bureaucracy-readings and competition lines for Western 'worldly' mythos/aesthetics. They had the right premonition-touch to make this stranger 'wage' that they'd be feeling 'weird' if they imagined some 'strangers' knocking on their door (late-night?) to disturb their social media culture 'friendly' sportsmanship-imagery artworks for creative net-thinking. However, this social media culture wouldn't necessarily safeguard them from the passing threat of strangers...of a 'darker' variety.

STRANGERS: Knock, knock!

AMLAN/RAKI: Why're you two in masks, if we may be so bold to ask?

STRANGERS: You've a chain on the door and can safely peep/whisper to hear our message!

AMLAN/RAKI: It's not Halloween...so we'd have to make 'wage' you're Strangers.

STRANGERS: Perchance we're leprechauns or shadow-zone wanderers for night-intelligence!

AMLAN/RAKI: What's your business with us, pals from Dartmouth, sports-culture writers?

STRANGERS: Perchance we've perused your cyber culture language-arts for deed-IQ.

AMLAN/RAKI: Perchance we procure some sports-culture 'trophy' image for peaceful pact?

STRANGERS: We mean business; we're messengers of interception; we need excellence!

AMLAN/RAKI: Perchance we may procure the 'trophy' item and cheer Halloween-humor.

STRANGERS: We'll wait...for social media's detectives (but hurry!).

Firstly, Amlan and Raki, pals from Dartmouth, who hoped to simply blend-into Echelon-writers life, procured a world-customs exchange 'symbolic' culinary-treat soft/zesty (Indian) luchi-bread thanksgiving-diner plate for the Strangers who knocked on their door (late-night!) in masks, and then they pleaded with them to offer them extra credit time to seek this sports-culture 'trophy' image to warrant a Homeland residence 'pardon' from the obvious sinister threat the masked messengers brought to neighborhood newbies. Were the Strangers an adversarial 'force' of Hell, darkening the community consciousness of the bread/fruit of (basic) American hospitality-readings?

AMLAN/RAKI: Here's the trophy, you two!

STRANGERS: A Detroit-city QB-rookie card of Super Bowl 'premonition' case.

AMLAN/RAKI: That's right, and it's a pronounced gem, for it's signed by the celebrity!

STRANGERS: Excellence for competition-lines, buddies...but we need explication of IQ.

AMLAN/RAKI: It's a (signed) Thanksgiving-TV (football!) culture nod to laurels-for-dreams.

STRANGERS: Damn (bureaucracy-dictation)...good.

AMLAN/RAKI: Surely such a procured 'magic-item' warrants a residence-passover for chats?

STRANGERS: Farewell (and thanx).

What could Amlan/Raki do but keep this (dark) secret of the 'earned' passover by the masked eerie messenger Strangers who appeared (late-night!) and required the extra credit examination of the two buddy sports-writers for a procuring of an American Homeland ideal-trophy toast for residence/license defenses.

AMLAN: My guess is the strangers were shadow-messengers of life's dogma, pal.

RAKI: Certainly as 'adversarial' as the Devil, no?

AMLAN: At least we had the miracle-item, the Detroit-city Thanksgiving-football laurel.

RAKI: All's well that ends with fare-definition.

AMLAN: Good.

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

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