The note was written in a scrawl
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Prologue.

The deck of life had nine cards
Love poker heart blood forgive abandon revenge
The truth card was lost
The last card was unknown
The fate of each card was delivered in a handwritten note

It's a time of change in a small 1950's town in deep southern United States, as sharecroppers and town squares are getting pressured by larger economic interests.
The notes, written in a nearly illegible scrawl, arrive at a critical point in each person's life, and alter events in the future.
The fate of one town, and the people who live there, are profoundly affected.
You have a choice, but don't ignore the note.

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Table of Contents
1. Maggie and the Love Card
2. Maggie sees River Boy
3. River Boy and Grandpa
4. Smuggling Maggie
5. Churchail

6. Abbeyville Summer Party
7. Joddie
8. Going to town
9. The Forgive Card
10. Maggie goes to Crooks Tail
11. Joddie comes for Sunday dinner
12. Joddie Rescue/ The Heart Card
14. Abagail and the Blacktown murders
15. Mrs Latchy Gray
16. The Abandon card / River Boy runs
17. The Deck of Life
18. River Boy meets Churchail
19 The Blood Card
20 The Upstate Boys meet with Churchail
21. The Poker Card
22. Joddie comes home
23. The dark night
24. Joel goes to Blacktown/ The Revenge Card
25. The worries/ The Forgive Card
26. Latchy and the plan to save Trinity/ Abandon card
Latchy invites her friends to Trinity, and sends a note to Rich man, telling him where he can find his son River Boy
26 River Boy talks to Harold
Folks in Blacktown decide the Klan is not coming since they getting hired to dig latrines for the tournament
Mons and folks from Blacktown decide to get banging gypsy to disrupt the fishing tourney
Hoodoo man says Gypsy is at the Juke.

Big Mac and Tony mute arrived in town, half on the run but quietly back to selling whisky. The market, eager as usual was keeping them alive, but most folks in Blacktown are stll wary of the war in Crooks Tail, and the murders, afraid of both the spies and the Klan, even of their own Mayor because he's white, but hell with that, it was a joke but all were stepping careful now. Even Top Hat is not sure who to trust any more.
Mac met with Top Hat in the back room, and both had their guns on the table, until Mac said, shit now, we just threw Spade in a hole together, resulting is a shared dark and worried laugh. Nobody else was in the room. All the girls were long away and there was stll blood on the billard table. Damn mess.
Mac told him that Crackling is gone. He's completely gone. Nobody says his name, and you know how those guys were always saying, Crackling this, and Crackling that. Nothing now.
I heard that Boy Johnson's in charge. I saw that guy Junior, you know Crackling's man. He was running up the street trying to get a ride out of there with anybody before they caught him,
Top Hat asked about the payments, but Mac hadn't heard. Nobody knew what they were going to do with Blacktown. Maybe it was just over, maybe just burn the billard hall and get out and go to Chicago. Top Hat knew some people, but up there, he was just another slick shoed bastard without a hustle.
Maybe it was up to Top Hat to stand tall, and show he could pull it back together.

Word spread fast that Harold was the snitch they were looking for. Top Hat, wasn't surprised. Look how stupid he was. I never trusted him and that's why he knew nothing, but it also meant that the white fella who came in now and then was the law.
After that Harold disappeared. Who knows where? His mama kept asking, but the stone faces told the truth, and she spent every night screaming, until a few people set her to consol.
Everybody was feeling dead inside.
That was until Tuesday night when Banging Gypsy showed up and told them to throw them damn church doors wide open ... and that night the whole town poured out into those pews and once filled, they sat outside ... all them, singing and dancing and praying as hard as they could until the devil shrunk down to a rat and ran from town just before the cats tore him to shreds.

 When the white fella stop coming, that'll be proof, but means they'll send somebody new. They'll also figure River Boy play a part, so we need to wait a while.
Mac agrees to tell Gypsy, and fast as lightning, a carload of shine and two white boys head east to tell Banging....

26) Bangin' Gypsy and the fishing tournament
27 River Boy goes to see Maggie
28) Susan
29) The Football Game/ The Truth Card/ unknown card


my book is not done yet May 2023, age 72 and dwindling quickly

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