Jeff, finds himself in Atlanta
wanting to get out of the hotel on a Friday night. In the Atlanta Underground
he meets up with Pick, a sly con man who takes Jeff around the Underground
ending up at the notorious Magic
Town strip club. There’s
only one problem: Jeff is the spitting image of a corrupt congressman! Nancy,
the beautiful FBI agent with the golden eyes takes Jeff on the ride of his life.
With three climax scenes, this story will make you want to get to the next
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Chapter 1 … Friday 4:16PM: Getting to the Underground
Chapter 1 … Friday 4:16PM: Getting to the Underground
Jeff, a
forty-something aerospace executive wants to get out of his hotel in Atlanta on a Friday night.
The hotel shuttle driver gives him suggestions including the strip clubs, but
Jeff has decided he definitely does not
want to go to a strip club, so ends up in heading the Atlanta Underground.
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Chapter 2 … Friday, 5:08PM: Temptation
Jeff has
landed in the Atlanta Underground where the hotel shuttle driver advised him to
have a pocket full of dollars for the panhandlers. He finds himself in a
woman’s clothing store captivated by Jennifer, the charming young sales lady
who talks him into buying an expensive coat and scarf for his wife. She also
offers to do a delivery to his hotel tomorrow. As he leaves he sees a Victoria ’s Secret store, but decides that if he got in so
much trouble in the other store the he will burn
in hell in a Victoria ’s
Secret!
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Chapter 3 … Friday, 5:56PM:
The Mark
Pick, the
charming con man takes Jeff around the Atlanta Underground, Jeff buying all
along the way. Finally after dinner Pick convinces Jeff to go with him to Magic Town .
Jeff figures that rabbits coming out of hats would be something he could tell
his mother about, but when he rounds the corner he sees that there won’t be any
rabbits coming out of hats here!
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Chapter 4 … Friday, 10:08 PM: Magic Town
Soon Jeff is in the notorious Magic Town
strip club pushing through the black curtain separating the bar from the entry
hall, the tall doorman seeming to recognize Jeff seats him and Pick at a table
in front of the long stage coming from the back wall. A minute later a dancer
appears stripping as dollars rain upon the stage, the men around Jeff going
crazy as he realizes he is the only white man in the club! Soon a stunning
white woman appears on the stage, reluctant at first to take her clothes off as
she dances. Hands push Jeff to the stage to give her a little encouragement only to have her yell down
“What are you doing here? You’re going to screw this up!” After she leaves the
stage the doorman appears saying Jeff's presence is wanted in front of the
dressing room…
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Chapter 5 … Saturday, 12:48 AM: The House
Shonna takes
Jeff along for a little ride to a seedy neighborhood somewhere in south Atlanta
where he spends the next few hours sleeping on a dusty couch while others
gathered at a small table keep looking back at him in disbelief, and where he
meets up with Pick again!
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Chapter 6 … Saturday, 5:08
AM: Bernice and the Diner
Shonna takes
Jeff to a shoddy little coffee shop where Jeff discovers the shocking truth
about why he has been suddenly thrust into this middle of the biggest
corruption scandal in Atlanta
history!
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Chapter 7 … Saturday, 6:12 AM: The Stakeout
Jeff has
discovered that he is the absolute spitting image of the crooked Congressman,
Frank Schedz, and Nancy
has convinced him to play along. Now he follows her along to a stakeout at six
in the morning looking for the Congressman so Jeff can deliver a message to
him. He learns more about this beguiling woman as she sits with binoculars
pressed to her eyes watching the house with two porch lights. Soon a parade of
characters, the mayor, police chief, city council members and others come out
of the house only to be followed by the signal that something has gone very
wrong!
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Chapter 8 … Saturday, 8:17 AM: What a Mess
Jeff finds
himself in the house they were watching––with three murdered people and the
congressman shot! The chaos of agents running in and out of the house leaves
Jeff baffled as he sits on the couch as Shonna instructed him. He notices a
sport coat exactly like his, pulls it over reaching into the pockets he discovers
it’s the congressman’s jacket! Inside he finds all sorts of printouts that
describe a criminal enterprise of enormous proportion, and in the side pocket
Jeff discovers a gun! Back at the hotel they pore over Jeff’s discovery piecing
together the scale of this criminal enterprise.
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Chapter 9 … Saturday, 12:04 PM: Wanted Visitor
Back at the
Sheraton, Shonna tells Jeff to get some sleep while she attends to a meeting up
in Norcross. Jeff strips naked and climbs into bed, awakes a couple hours
later. When he comes out of the bathroom he finds Jennifer, the beautiful store
clerk from Ann Tallot’s yesterday, sitting in his room. A minute later she is
naked from her sweater to the tops of her boots, then as they are laying naked
together the unexpected happens!
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Chapter 10 … Saturday, 5:02 PM: The Press
Conference
Jeff
discovered that he is the absolute spitting image of the crooked Congressman,
Frank Schedz, and Nancy
has convinced him to play along. Now he finds himself standing at a podium
bristling with microphones with letters like ABC and CNN on them where he us
about to fire a warning shot that will light up the bad guys!
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Chapter 11 … Saturday, 5:34 PM: Back at the
Hotel
Jeff is
taken back to his hotel room where he finds equipment eves dropping on Magic Town– –that
press conference sure lit up the bad guys! When Jeff calls home his son says he
saw Daddy on TV! Now Shonna tells him that Antonio, the owner of Magic Town ,
has asked for a meeting where she is sure that he wants to get on the good
guys’ side. They prepare for the meeting, including the mole on Jeff’s right
chin like the congressman that she puts on with an eyebrow pencil. So now off
to Magic Town where Shonna is hoping to get names
of the bad guys from Antonio. As they leave for Magic Town
she hands Jeff the congressman’s gun!
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Chapter 12 … Saturday, 9:08 PM: Antonio
Shonna takes
Jeff to Magic Town followed by two FBI agents as muscle where she hopes Antonio will give
up names of the bad guys. Antonio, the mysterious gangster in the
Panama hat Jeff saw last night in Magic
Town dispatching the
hoodlums to go raise hell, invites them to sit and have drinks. After Antonio tells
them of how he steered his family across from Cuba
to Miami , he
says something startling that is about to bust open Shonna’s cover!
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Chapter 13 … Saturday, 9:43 PM:
Collaborator
Antonio has
figured out Jeff is an imposter and Shonna is a cop! But Antonio desperately
wants immunity and so he digs into his records and starts giving up names that
Shonna had only had initials for. Antonio gives Jeff a tour of the criminals’
wretched scheme of extortion and violence, and Jeff is amazed at the scale of
this whole operation!
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Chapter 14 … Sunday, 12:28 AM: The Safe
House
It’s not
safe for Jeff to go back to his hotel! Jeff discovers that they have changed
his business meeting that was planned for Monday with Jeff wondering they can do that? Shonna admits that she
wishes it had been her with no
panties in his hotel room this morning, and Jeff admits he wishes it was her,
too. Soon he is at the ops house in Roswell
where he meets Arnie, the senior FBI agent, for the first time and finds out
that he will be under their protection!
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Chapter 15 … Sunday, 7:22 AM: What’s Next?
Jeff awakes
to Shonna laying next to him, wondering at this woman. She tells him that she
is FBI and complains that the lifestyle doesn’t promote finding a relationship.
They kiss for the first time; he decides that he needs to be a different
person, a new man so he can open himself to the experience he hopes to have
with Shonna. He sits in on his first team meeting but is discouraged that they
cannot seem to come to any consensus as he remembers Antonio’s words Take them out all at once! But what to
do with it?
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Chapter … 16: Sunday, 10:18 AM: A Plan
Emerges
Jeff is
baffled at how this room filled with smart people can’t seem to make sense of
the case. He realizes that they are doing
it all wrong! Jeff is certain they can’t solve the case, so why are they
even trying … all they need to do is catch the bad guys and figure it out
later! He remembers a story from Sherlock Holmes and a plan emerges. Shonna
realizes there’s something they don’t know about the layout of Magic Town ,
that there must be another exit. She tells him that there is one more person
that they have left out of the equation. When Jeff asks who that is…
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Chapter 17 … Sunday, 12:34 PM: Back Again
to Magic Town
As they are leaving the safe house to go back to Magic Town ,
Jeff is handed the congressman’s 38-caliber Colt
Cobra pistol! They are heading
back to Magic Town
to invite Antonio to their little Birdie
Edwards party to be held tomorrow at Magic Town .
They investigate the mysterious door next to the club’s back door and discover
a tunnel leading to a warehouse behind the club that explains how people appear in the club without entering or
leaving. Shonna leaves Jeff in the lit-up bar watching janitors cleaning
the bar when suddenly she calls out to him JEFF GET IN HERE! They discover Antonio has been shot!
His body guards murdered! Shonna leaves Jeff in Antonio’s office with the
instructions to shoot at anything that comes through that door!
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Chapter 18 … Sunday, 12:48 PM: Unwanted
Visitors
Shonna left Jeff in Antonio’s office with the instructions to shoot at anything that comes through that
door! Antonio has been shot; he starts to come to, but he doesn’t name the
shooter! But Antonio says one word clearly, “Inside.” What inside? Soon Jeff hears sounds in the hallway, voices though
the door, a whisper, so faint, “I won’t let that happen again.” What? What won’t he let happen again? Suddenly
the door knob starts to turn! Jeff stands up, gun straight-armed at the door!
As the door slowly opens …
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Chapter 19 … Sunday, 3:35 PM: Reluctant
Shooter
The team speculates about what was happening here and at the word
“Inside” spoken by Antonio. As the discussion turns to squabbling Jeff is
certain they are missing something. They
figure out that the victims knew and trusted the shooter! And that the shooter
wasn’t a professional, maybe even reluctant! Finally as the meeting ends Shonna
turns to Jeff and says that it is time for them to turn him into a prick.
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Chapter 20 of Magic Town
… Sunday 4:34 PM: Laying the Net
Jeff finally
meets Joel, the congressman’s chief aid, and Jeff is disgusted with this
arrogant ass. He and Shonna take a drive to see the crooked city council
members, then to the chief of police who pulls a gun on Jeff, but he shrugs it
off leaving the Chief stunned. Then they go to see the mayor who pulls a gun on
them, but thanks to Arnie they have a little surprise in store for the mayor …
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Chapter 21 of Magic Town
… Sunday, 9:32 PM: “I killed a man”
Jeff finds out that his volley of bullets through Antonio’s office
door killed Snake Arm. He can’t believe that he actually killed someone! Shonna and Jeff talk over what happened,
Jeff still uncertain that it could have been Snake Arm who was the shooter
yesterday; how could he get so close to his victims? They have found out that
Joel is the main man for sure! Now to plan for the big meeting tomorrow where
they hope to nab all the bad guys at once!
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Chapter 22 … Monday, 2:37 AM: Fallen
DON’T
MISS JEFF AND SHONNA NAKED TOGETHER!
Jeff wakes up in the
middle of the night with Shonna next to him. He sits in the darkness wondering
at this woman, what would it be like to make love to her? She wakes up and
says, “Why are you up, why aren’t you in bed with me?” then, “Uh, sorry, I
didn’t really mean that,” Jeff thinking oh
yes you did! Jeff goes to take a shower when suddenly he hears, “You were
taking too long, so I figured I better get in here with you!” He turns to see
Shonna naked in the shower with him! They instantly are in each others’ arms
when suddenly Shonna turns to Jeff with a start, “Oh my god, Jeff, oh my god! We
did it, oh, Jeff, I did it. Oh goddam you Nancy! Stupid Nancy!” then she jumps
out of the shower!
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Chapter 23 of Magic Town
… Monday, Noon: The Trap
YOU
DON’T WANT TO MISS THE GREAT SHOOT OUT!
This is the
moment they have been waiting for! At noon all the bad guys will assemble in Magic Town
where Jeff will pretend to be the congressman announcing that this enterprise
is dissolved. But before he can make the announcement Joel shows up furious
that the meeting was held without him! Soon guns are drawn as Shonna and Jeff
slowly slowly slowly leave the room, Jeff escaping through the infamous
counting room in the basement, joining Shonna near the front door. Suddenly THE DRAGON ROARS!
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Chapter 24 of Magic Town
… Monday, 12:28 PM: A Bad Meeting
DON’T MISS THE DANGER WHEN THEY
ENCOUNTER PERKINS!
Jeff and Shonna escaped Magic Town
where everyone murdered each other! Now they have made a desperate
escape to the warehouse at the end of the secret tunnel they found yesterday. They
emerge into the warehouse to find Jennifer from Jeff’s hotel room on Saturday!
Then they are confronted by Perkins holding a gun and find out Perkins’
terrible secret!
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Chapter 25 … Monday, 12:57 PM: Choice to Make
They lead Perkins back
to Magic Town as Jeff carries Jennifer over his
shoulder – both holding guns on Perkins. Soon Jeff, Shonna, and Arnie are
drinking beers with Jennifer for relief of everything that’s happened. Then
Arnie has a little talk with Jennifer
about her enterprising ways with married men after she gives one more grateful
gift to her former employer at Ann Tallots. Then Jeff and Shonna are off to
Norcross for their night together!
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Chapter 26 … Monday, 4:28 PM: Three Missing Words
Shonna takes
Jeff to the Hilton up in Norcross where they have a wonderful evening where she
makes Jeff do a strip dance for her followed by sex, sex, sex and more sex …
and where he tells her the three missing words from his speech in Magic Town .
They speak of love and devotion, and his need to call her by her real name, Nancy .
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Chapter 27 … Monday 9:38 PM: A Scary Night
Out
DON’T
MISS THE HIT MAN SENT TO KILL JEFF!
Jeff decides
he wants to be seen in public with Nancy
and so they go out to a restaurant. Suddenly Pick appears in the shadows
calling to Jeff, then dragging Jeff out the back of the restaurant to the
parking lot. He tells Jeff that a hit man is in the restaurant and there to
murder him! Nancy
is no where to be seen! Pick pulls Jeff out into the middle of the dark parking
lot as the hit man appears! Then Pick slugs Jeff!
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Final chapter of Magic Town … Tuesday,
12:14 PM: Parting
At last the
great Magic Town adventure is over. Nancy
packs Jeff into a private jet for the flight home to Seattle . Their tearful goodbye pulls at us
watching Jeff struggle with leaving this beautiful woman with the golden eyes
behind as he goes back to his suburban life. Jeff is forced through the
formality of signing papers saying he will never speak of this adventure to
anyone …
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