"The Big Easy"

Heather Holahan
Jul 7, 2024
1 min read

Updated: Jul 26, 2024

The Creole Queen was fanning herself in the smoldering heat

While the Voodoo Priestess set up shop on Bourbon Street

The Garden District millionaires were sharpening their political swords

While another kid in the Lower Ninth Ward ended up in the morgue

The sun was setting over the Mighty Mississippi

While the beaded girls of Mardi Gras were feeling a little tippy

Tourists were eating gumbo in the quarter and brunching on the canal

A painting was being sold on Magazine Street, boosting the starving artist's morale

The vintage hats and beautiful masks were on full display

The jazz funerals proceeded as the spirits came out to play

The booze was cruel and the beignets were kind

New Orleans - you are the glitter and the grind

4 Comments

cecca13

Jul 08, 2024

I will stay away from the beignets finding them not kind at all....The booze is free to flow down my throat...and I would like to keep the spirits company....find the soul of the "kid in the morgue....hold his hand....while he crosses over to the bright light....I will assure him...help him feel safe....The masks I will turn away from...their beauty hides many secrets....dark...uninviting....but I know how to focus on the glitter....and maybe...just maybe makes friends with a voodoo priestess who will show me her secrets....and I become both the grind...searching....finding...the glitter...always...

Heather Holahan

Jul 12, 2024

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These are such interesting steps that you've created for the characters! You've made the scenarios jump off the page - bravo. I especially like the idea of the Ninth Ward kid embracing his new life, but still having a little window into the past and the ones who are still in danger. GREAT WORK Francesca. Thank you.