California's Downs

California's Downs

A Story by Abishai100
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'Dashing' Cali-twins stage an eco-theater for gems-heist street gossip that draws some eye to a bad baron and warlord-treasures for an insurance know.

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An American heist-fiction. Thanks for reading! 
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The Brothers-Satan (Amlan/Ajay), Slovak-Algerian Catholic-Californians, twins, immigrants, citizens, eco-activists, found a special underground rumor about moved/insured 'blood-diamonds' in a very iconic Western world bank and planned a Halloween eco-deed for theater generating gossip for knucklebones. Follow along (Selfie-like).



DETECTIVE HANNA: These twins were in eco-performance outfits with water-guns?
BANK MANAGER: They wanted escort to the Ion-co. bank box for stored gems.
DETECTIVE HANNA: Swapped the rumored/insured 'blood-diamonds' with toys?
BANK MANAGER: Note for Baron Ion, "Insured gems, black-market butterknife."
DETECTIVE HANNA: Covered the camera with bubble-wrap and recorded the stunt?
BANK MANAGER: Had guardsman dance for background music, damn.
DETECTIVE HANNA: Apparently, Ion-co. has street-gossip for computing wars.
BANK MANAGER: Maybe these twins were sent by Ion's rival for eco-knitting?
DETECTIVE HANNA: Right...Facebook-like (for Heaven/Hell).



Detective Hanna had become a hotshot transfer to Cali as a policewoman-detective with a special flair for chasing anyone who looked like an Old West vigilante/cowboy type and took interest in the work of the Brothers-Satan, Amlan and Ajay, who made a 'dashing' eco-theater gossip for rumored/moved 'blood-diamonds' for black market evils stemming from conflict-zones controlled by warlords making for new Earth 'rogue' finance superstitions for pre-Xmas consumerism (ok). Hanna wasn't impressed (Selfie-like).



AMLAN: I like Hanna.
AJAY: Don't be an idiot, Amlan Satan...we're to Venice via Alitalia (business/class).
AMLAN: California was ours, for Robin Hood or Edward Abbey (wow).
AJAY: Look, connect with a stewardess for a marriage-proposal.
AMLAN: I'm in love with a teller inside that bank we took, brother.
AJAY: What?
AMLAN: Esmerelda...I plan to tell her we're to Brussels/Belgium for waffle-dive.
AJAY: What if she suspects we're the twins in-question?
AMLAN: We'll tell her Ion's rival sent us for a football-market investment stunt!
AJAY: She'll never know you're a Merry-Man, brother.
AMLAN: That's the work we chose...pre-work with Nasdaq (right?).
AJAY: Here, I thought I was the crazier twin.
AMLAN: Remember, as kids we collected NFL-cards we both liked, brother?
AJAY: When we get to Brussels (then)...we'll invest in old Notre Dame things.
AMLAN: Fine (Selfie-like).



Detective Hanna started scoping around and wondered if Baron Ion had some internal eco-consciousness office-work undone or if someone, perhaps a rival, questioned their interests in eco-things in the new century (ok). She began to wonder if the Ion-co. would draw new-eye because of eco-gossip generated by the theater-stunt made by the masked eco-theater twins carrying water-guns with acid. Was this chemical warfare or industry internal kilns for doubt?



DETECTIVE HANNA: I read this blog by the 'Brothers-Satan' about eco-activism.
POLICE CHIEF: You think this was some Earth-minerals mining vigilante-work, girl?
DETECTIVE HANNA: These twins blogged about college-football cards, eco-fortune.
POLICE CHIEF: Two regular Catholic-American (Slovak-Algerian?) twins of Cali, eh?
DETECTIVE HANNA: I know Baron Ion must think they're merry-men of gold.
POLICE CHIEF: Rumor always has California downs, Hanna (best-of-luck).



ESMERELDA: Here we are to Belgium on Alitalia, Amlan Satan.
AMLAN: My twin-brother shall meet us there...waffles and organic food stuff, ok.
ESMERELDA: You'll miss eco-work in California, Amlan Satan (ha).
AMLAN: With you by my side, I've Maid Marian enough, no?
ESMERELDA: What was that whole insider-gossip stuff about Baron Ion, Satan?
AMLAN: Who cares...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)

© 2025 Abishai100


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