Cards for Thorn

Affable merchant-twins seek cool-hand shake for diamonds and cards (NFL-prints) with the ruthless Baroness for an Echelon/Homeland knit for jigsaw.

A (joyful) cards/treasures 'ethos' fiction, injected in-between my Cyrano de Bergerac modernization/adaptation, for your 1st-weekend Sunday of '26. Thanks for reading! 

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AMLAN: We're cool twins of the American Homeland for this Echelon-game, bro.

AJAY: As your twin/brother of things cards and poker for challenge, I concur, bro.

AMLAN: We invite the Baroness to our Echelon-pad and think win for gossip, bro.

AJAY: We'll use our Queen-of-Hearts card to sell a gems/NFL-card trade, bro.

AMLAN: Baroness shall say, "These identical brothers make cards-knit for Heaven."

AJAY: Facebook-like (for Heaven/Hell).

Amlan and Ajay made a great poker-duo for card-hands and invited the ruthless bloody-gems Baroness of the American Homeland to their very-quaint Echelon-pad for a Saturday's Eve cards-game contest for will of trades of gems and NFL-cards, so they'd gain some cool streets-gossip aura for their merchant-status and diamonds-investments; but they knew they needed to impress the ruthless 'queen-of-hearts' for warrant of trades of NFL-cards and diamonds/treasures (ok).

BARONESS: I can't believe I lost (to you).

AMLAN/AJAY: We're aces, Baroness (ok).

BARONESS: So, I get a New Orleans card and you get my Dallas-item; gems too.

AMLAN/AJAY: We want some small portion of your ('famous') gems for your gems!

BARONESS: Facebook-like (for Heaven/Hell).

Amlan and Ajay knew their small-trumpet for Echelon-life and merchant-life was cool helmets for diamonds and cards. As a souvenir, the Baroness kept the brothers' cards-deck piece, Queen-of-Hearts (for symbolism), making them promise they'd give up gambling (altogether!). The twins agreed and proceeded to make a nice comics-adaptation cyber-fiction about incomplete-distances readings to the leviathan/uncertainty of Earthling (manmade) capitalism-knit for jellybeans (wow).

THE END

"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)