The Blue Terraplane

The Blue Terraplane Is A 89 Page Novel. This Novel Is Written In The Local Unadorned Black Dialect Spoken In 1937 Bronzeville Chicago. Bishop Flipper Was A Poor Runaway Southern Black Orphaned Teenager Who Encountered A Starving Crippled Old Black Man With A Three-Legged Dog. After Sharing His Meager Food With This Old Man The Old Man Promised The Orphaned Teenager A Blessed Life In Chicago For Six And A Half Years. On July 12 1937 Madame Madelyn A Frail Pipe-Smoking Elderly Woman Invited Bishop To Her To Mysterious Storefront Business. Madelyn A Voodoo Priestess Warned Her Guest That His Blessed Six-And-A-Half Year Period Would End On July 13 1937. This Old Lady Offered The Young Man A Battered Old Bronze Magic Ring Which She Claimed Would Protect Him From Any Harm. At Noon July 13 Bishop Encounters Raoul La Croix And Paloma Issert. Raoul Was Huge Menacing-Looking Baldheaded Black Man With A Long Serpentine Stiletto Who Was Treating The Helpless Paloma Issert In The Local Illinois Central Train Station. Paloma Issert Was A Young Girl From Algiers Louisiana Who Was Desperately Attempting To Escape From Raoul. Quickly Raoul Became Bishop'S Adversary While Paloma Became His Femme Fatale.