Note: This story contains mixture of fiction and fact. What is and what is not everyone can decide for themselves Anyways I did this first chapter to get the idea out and see what the reaction to it is. I hope to improve my writing and any reviews and constructive critiques are much appreciated.
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Sure sure, we all wish for that magical spot of luck that will spiffy up our lives in one or more areas. Such as having good luck with the opposite sex, winning the lottery, getting that promotion, doing well at school, and so on. I always saw people with these natural gifts for getting what they wanted, like a certain talent, looks, or just plain luck that gets them everything served on a golden platter.
Obviously I'm not one of those people...
My name is Martin Stevens, 20 year old guy volunteer working in New Orleans. Caucasian, five foot four inches, brown curly hair, brown eyes. I travel around to different areas with a team of volunteers, working on different projects. Plus get to check out the local areas and shops.
Which is what I was doing yesterday, touring the shop nearby Bourbon street. When I came across a shop entrance that seemed like it would be very easy to miss if you were not paying attention. By the looks of it, it was just like the other occult voodoo shops around those streets, which enticed my interests. I opened the small creaky door and heard a jingle of the bell to let the shop owner know of customers entering. A moment later the shopkeeper appeared from the back room, as soon as he saw me he rushed over, "Good, you're the first customer, here have a free gift." With that out of his pocket he pulled out a strange coin, with various little designs on it where it seemed some images leaped off it but then again they were not there at all in the center of these designs was a hole with a string tied through it to make a necklace.
"What is it" I asked looking between it and the shop owner.
"It will bring you all the luck you could possibly want, money, fame, women, all of it, plus stops disease including stds and doesn't allow any woman you bed while wearing it to get pregnant. All the perks and no responsibilities. The only thing is, any woman that you have taken to bed will want it afterwards. If they take it you are cursed to marry that woman and then your life will return to normal as long as you remain married to that woman until death due you part as they say."
The shop owner suddenly thrust the coin into my pocket. "Now get out of here before my accursed wife finds out that I gave the coin away." With that he spun me around, sent me out the door, and locked it.
Yeah rather odd experience right? It only gets weirder though in a good way I suppose.
You see, on my way back to my sponsored housing in Algiers from Bourbon street, every which way people wanted to make conversation with me. The doormen to the adult clubs would literally grab me off the street and throw me into the club, where all the women kept making offers that I was too embarrassed to take at the time. Not only that but various restaurants tried to invite me in for a free meal, stores wanted to give me free items, so on and so forth. Eventually I get back to my sponsored housing out of breath when I hear someone calling me from the living room. Catching my breath I walked in to see a volunteer from one of the other teams around here. Her name was Nessa, and she was the ebony beauty of a crush I had since joining this volunteer service. Dark skin, almost light brown curly long hair, full set of lips and bright eyes.
"Hey you, I was just about to call, I was bored sitting at my place so I decided to walk over here." She said springing up from the couch.
"Long walk, so why are you here?"