To the developers of Call of Duty: 

So hear me out…. 

This title, JuCity Mafia, has been something that I wanted to use in the wildest way. It was obvious at first…. a mafia romance. I figured at the time that this story would be absolutely the easiest story to write. I most certainly lied to myself when I believed that notion.  

I have restarted this story about fiftyeleven times and each time I do something totally different with the storyline. I’ve changed the cover at least a thousand times as well as the name. At this point I’m settling for just a cute name on a shirt but for whatever reason it seems as if it’s meant for more than just a cute hoodie in the fall.  

So back to the storyboard I go…. drafting up new storylines, new characters, backgrounds, and researching as much karma sutra as I can. Once again…. I say, ‘No, this just won’t do’ and I’m left back at a cute name. Actually, realizing that maybe it’s not a storyline that needs to be truly written and published as another KC novel.  

It wasn’t until last night that I had an epiphany……  

As my Royals in SnapNation land already know…. I definitely prefer the campaign or mission part of Call of Duty as well as LARPing which of course is just Live Action Role Playing. Something I have done with my 4 kids too many times. Turning off all the lights with Nerf bullets flying all around the house. One kid hiding under the bed. Another in the bathroom. One climbed to the top of the closet and played sniper all night while the baby ran around screaming because we were running around screaming.  

After having played our own version of Call of Duty, it wasn’t hard to imagine a Call of Duty for Jackson, Mississippi as I looked around the neighborhood at all of the perfect hiding places. I joked about it last night on SnapChat as I only entertained the idea because I know these streets of Jackson, Mississippi. There are some amazing areas that could be used for a Call of Duty style LARPing event or even the actual video game itself.  

Either way, it would be the bees’ knees to light y’all up in a Call of Duty version of Jackson, Mississippi. Much like Grand Theft Auto with the many different locations. Call of Duty would pop. Now I don’t know who or why we pulling off military style missions in Jackson, Mississippi but I’m all for it. 

But that was last night….. 

Woke up this morning, continuing this lil update knowing I would start a ‘Rants & Raves’ page and then BOOM…… 

The name of the Call of Duty version for Jackson, Mississippi would be so dope as Call of Duty: JuCity Mafia. Now what does that cover design look like because it’s certainly not the one I have drafted up for when I wanted this to be a novel. The more I consider scraping the idea as a novel, the more ideas come in for it to be a military style video game. I mean at some point somebody in the storyline has bad blood with some Germans or something.  

Pool game gone wrong or maybe a horse race as a distraction to gather intel. Many many ideas…. it not for a novel. The most important thing is that it has aliens and not zombies. Straight up like Independence Day with Will Smith and Vivica A. Fox on one side and Call of Duty on the other. 

Sigh….. 

Lemme go download Call of Duty: Mobile until a miracle happens for Call of Duty: JuCity Mafia with KC as a character of course. Just daydreaming and singing, “Mr. Sandman….”