Author: John Hopkins

Publisher: Hopart Publishing

Published: 2021-10-11

Total Pages: 16

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Bartholomew, a botany professor, wiling away his dull life teaching somnambulant students about plants at a New York City college, receives a mysterious invitation to join a top-secret club. Big Shots, the club’s name, wreaks wealth and privilege—two things the taciturn professor lacks in spades. Weighing his humdrum life and dead-end career choice, the circumspect scientist throws caution to the wind and accepts the unsolicited email offer with its dire subject line: Come with us if you want to live. How could anyone say no to a premise like that? However, upon entering the Manhattan high-rise clubhouse teeming with power brokers and glitterati, he discovers things are not as straightforward as the club’s name implies. Adding icing to the cake, membership requires abandoning his former life for good. The Big Shots Club is a pet project of Artemus Pennywell, The Powers That Be’s CEO. However, in this tale, the ageless man’s purpose leans toward grifting folks with a healthy sense of self-preservation from their limitless cash reserves. Recruits like Bartholomew give the grift an air of legitimacy because if the world does indeed end, someone will have to maintain the seeds.