The Only Card
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"Haven't you heard? The joker is the only one of its kind. There are many queens and kings, and many face cards. But the joker, is the only card."
Where a miserable young man makes a deal with a stranger as joke at a sketchy bar, that apparently doesn't exist his world starts to transform-literally. Elsie family history isn't the only thing weird in town, his newfound 'best friend' Julian, doesn't help his paranoid state either.
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The Knights are real, and there not just a deck of cards, they are real deities. And they need to be served. Especially the Joker, the only one of its kind.
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