All I Wrote Tonight

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I tried finding a sketchbook at Wal-Mart, but even during Back-To-School, they don’t have any on their shelves. I was thinking of drawing a graphic novel. Still am. I dream in comics these days. I think it’s time to rework an idea I’ve had bumping through my mind for the past 16+ years. Here is a very crude imaging of what I’m driving at. I shouldn’t say that though, because it’s completely different. The style would be completely different when I get into it, but here I am drinking beers and listening to the Rollins Band:
“Pick a card, any card,” the voice told him in true magician fashion. The disconcerting thing was that the voice was connected to nothing. The room around him was vast and gilded gold. The table before him more so. Arrayed upon it was a virtually infinite number of playing cards.
Naturally, he was confused, although he was quite certain what was being asked of him. “So… I should pick up one of these cards?” he asked the voice. He looked about the room, trying to get his bearings. It was like a dining hall in the proportions of a train station. The ceiling was arched. Everything was the colour of gold, even if it was not. Turning in his high-backed chair, he looked behind him. The room stretched beyond view, like a tunnel wrapping around the world. The table was lined with chairs numbering in the hundreds, although none were as grand as his aside from the one in distant opposite end, which was every bit it‘s equal. A moment before, he would have said that this seat was empty. Now it was host to a dim figure, bearded and grey. More than this could not be viewed.
“A card,” the man reiterated.
“Ah.. Sure,” Michael said. Still confused, he reached out and picked a card at random. Turning it over, he saw it was the Queen of Diamonds. “Here.” He turned it around so the man could see, if his vision was that acute. Afterwards, he wondered if he was supposed to show the card.
“Put it back,” he was told sternly.
“Okay,” Michael complied. He set it back, and awaited further orders.