After The Mardi Gras
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As this written New Orleans is mostly underwater and in ruins. Federal Troops patrol the streets. A ghost town. But wait, New Orleans has always been a ghost town. Spirits travel the streets day and night irrespective of the city's condition. And Federal Boots have tramped through the streets before. No New Orleans? Nothing could have personified more clearly what I was trying to say. There are parties and parades. There are mad dances in the moonlight. There is love. Sometimes however we have to stop the party and reflect and rebuild. There is a time "After the Mardi Gras". Then we stand up and brush the dirt from our clothing. We renew our love and we charge headlong back into our lives, never regretting a moment of it.
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It takes many strands to braid a rope. Each strand stands alone yet it is strongest as part of the whole. After the Mardi Gras, is woven from smaller pieces. Three pieces. What could have been, what never could be and what should have been. Part 1, Nazareth Twice Told, The Drama's of Divorce, Alchoholism, College and Spirituality. Then we visit a strange exotic city where a bizarre kidnap plan unfolds. Part 2, The Dark is Always the Same, A Sleeper on a Mountain talks to a Dark Spirit then the Clowns have a Picnic. Part 3, Ratchethead, An Ancient Mariner leaves his home in Portugal and sails into the heart of a Pre-Tennessee Indian Maiden named "Winter Bear". All have one thing in common, a Sinful Old City that sits on the banks of a Grand Murky River.
About the Author
R.S. Pierpoint, an Ohioan by birth but a Tennessean by choice. His family lived by the Tennessee river until it was dammed to make electricity years ago. His Father like many others migrated to the factories up north looking for more. There R.S. was born and raised in the vast wasteland of Cleveland's suburbia. Adventure set in, the return to the South, Schools, Marriage and Work. He currently is employed in the Field of Security. He resides in Magic Valley, Tennessee, in the Shadow of the Great Indian Mounds. His previous volume "Passageways" can be found in the University of Iowa's Special Collection.