Kingdom: Jury

Fiction-portrait of UK-insanity and 'inherited-darkness' for all things of life's jitters of (sibling) chore.

A world jitters story, inspired by the style of Stephen King (loosely!), 

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I was happily managing my special store in Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) with my darling-bride Esmerelda after moving from Boston-town (New England, USA) to Belfast. Well, there'd been much history/record of Catholic-Protestant coexistence in 'troubles' rich Northern Ireland that made for special storyboards and imagery, and this is mine (Facebook-like!).

My name's Amlan Satan and I'm a Slovak-Algerian immigrant to the USA and Catholic-convert American citizen who got a small inheritance from Algiers (mother Nina) and moved to the UK with my Slovak mail-order bride (darling Esmerelda) who happened to be a fan of newspapers and magazines and guide-books, which is what my store sells/offers (to Catholics/Protestants alike). This was a store of reflection for modern commerce 21st-Century everyday sanity/traffic for social media conveniences 'consciousness' cleats (Facebook-like!).

My story is weird. It's weird, because it involves the visit by my estranged/twin, Ajay Satan. He'd become a bank-robber, somewhere in the American Homeland (damn). He moved to Belfast just to annoy me, knowing I wasn't into terror and frighteners (damn). He brought with him this 'special' Halloween culture get-up, which is what he 'adorned' when he rang my doorbell in the UK; and Esmerelda answered the door, and she fainted (I'd spent pillow-talk hours explaining why Ajay Satan was the Devil himself, Selfe-like!).

AMLAN: A gun, for a gift, for us, for insanity, for Hell (wow).

AJAY: Hey, only my brother would invent a hygiene-routine in IRA-town, ha.

AMLAN: Well, it's a world for me of computer/mouse jardinieres, evil twin!

AJAY: I put a curse on you, and you'll become wild and crazy in Belfast, bro!

AMLAN: Thanx...I guess (evil is always long, ok).

Ajay committed suicide, right in our Northern Ireland home, and I had to bury him in his hometown cemetery, or I think it was his hometown (his claim!). I decided his curse had no weight. However, it started weighing on me, when I returned to Northern Ireland (United Kingdom). Something in me changed, somehow, and I didn't know what to do now (damn).

FANZINE: You're that Robin Hood robbing banks for blood-diamond rumors?

ME: I guess you'd not not think this was the hand of my evil twin (Ajay)?

FANZINE: Maybe you faked his death, ha...Robin Hood!

ME: Maybe evil is inheritance...this caters to Catholic-Protestant shoppers.

FANZINE: Facebook-like?

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

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)