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...ved in a nice long discussion... about anything.

Sipping your coffee, you begin your stroll down the lively street, sizing up each of the many psychics and mystics and palm readers... waiting for one of them to strike you as a potential Nicolas Dias. Most of them are women. By the time you reach what appears to be the last of them, you've easily narrowed it down to just two possibilities; an old man with long gray hair, covered in jewelry and dark sunglasses, leaning back in his chair smoking a pipe behind an empty table, with no customers... and a man about your age, dressed almost as you are now, giving Tarot readings to a group of young women who are clearly very drunk.

Neither of them is anything like the Nicolas Dias you've been imagining, but Cal never actually gave you a physical description of him. Not even an approximate age...

Dias may not be out tonight, you tell yourself. But if he is, he's one of those two men...

The Younger Man

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Rac7hel CHARACTERS:
-- You (Edward) - a police officer in your mid-30's
-- Cal Beauchamp - a wealthy, respected 28-year-old businessman who you know to be a murderer.
-- Gabrielle - your 19-year-old sister who is engaged to Cal and recently pregnant.
-- Joseph - normal-looking 30-something-year-old guy who does Tarot readings on the street.
-- Old man - an old man who dresses like a gypsy and works on the street, saying creepy rude things to people for money.
-- Nicolas Dias - depends on who you ask.

SETTING:
New Orleans, present day. Well, let's say pre-Katrina to keep it simple.

STYLE:
The title is Outsmart because the characters are constantly lying and hiding things from each other. OR ARE THEY??? Everyone has his own agenda and probably doesn't want to reveal what that is. But somewhere, deep inside this story, there really is a coherent plot.

NOTE:
If you want to add to the story and wish to know a little more of what Jillian and I are planning, email me and I'll be glad to fill you in!

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