Every morning when the bell-ringing wagons would pass the home of Marjorie Laboux, she would gather her daughter Isabella and her mulatto companion Nikki Legêr inside their plantation home so they wouldn’t have to witness the cargo of heaped yellow fever bodies. If Marjorie would have had her way, she would have taken her girls…

Rupert Ausber Merrywhether was an angel. Not the baseball team, or some red beret wearing vigilante, but an actual haloed and winged angel. He governed 2,388 angels who called themselves the Lords of the Heavens of Crystal. Unlike other angels who were so beautiful and magnificent that it was ecstasy just to bask in their…

When the buses arrived at Our Lady of Fatima Summer Camp and the boys had unloaded their three bikes, George handed Buddha Tex’s cell phone and said, “Go ahead and make the call and stay close; this should all go down pretty quickly.”Spider rode Maggie past a group of boys containing Malik, who was showing…

Spider, George, and Buddha were crammed into Tex’s bedroom scared to go out in the hall. Tex’s mother, Mrs. Angela was reading him the riot act as she picked up various objects for him to pack from various rooms.“You should be preparing for college in the fall instead of running around playing teenager!”“Mom, I am…

Now let us turn back the hands of time. I’d like to transport my audience back to eight o’clock in the morning on the same day that our King Bacchus shocked the world with is choosing of the unlikely Queen of Love and Beauty.While our heroes were going about their lives with an intoxicating youthful…

Back at Le Robwyne high school, Spider stepped into the dance wearing his black Armani suit. He wore a black fedora hat with a gold band Buddha had made in the shape of a crown. The music began and George handed him a cup of punch. “Man, these tuxes are incredible! I feel like James…

“Hey, Mom, has Buddha come by with the hat yet?” Spider yelled to his Mom who was in the bathroom.“No sign of him. I called Janet. She’s at work. She said he was supposed to meet you at Tex’s.”Spider came out of his bedroom door carrying a tux over his shoulder wrapped in plastic from…

“I wonder what she sees in there?” Bernos thought to himself as he looked at the viewing screen watching April Miller, who had taken a brief pause in her housecleaning and was gazing longingly into the mirror that may or may not have belonged to Snow White’s evil nemesis. Over the past couple of months…

The Ice Cream Gangsters, plus Max, were inside Spider’s apartment on a warm Friday evening around the beginning of May when Detective Bernos knocked at the door. “Mr. Chaz, come in,” said Buddha with his 35mm camera strapped around his neck. “Oh, taking pictures?” Chaz was similarly girded with a camera bag he took to…