Penetrating Transfer

By now, I’m sure you’re used to the crazy history behind some of these stories. This one is no exception. Years ago, when I wrote my book Stone Cold Magic (no longer in print), David Winkler donated a few tricks to the book. One of them made it’s way to Stone Cold Magic on DVD . . . The Target Card.

However, there were a couple of coin tricks that never made it to the DVD. One of them was an effect that I named Coin Flakes. Silly me, I did not know that David already had a name for the effect, so the book went to print with the wrong name. Each effect in the book also came with it’s very own artwork from Jason Montoya along with its very own short-story from yours truly . . . Jeff Stone.

Once the book went to print, everything was wrong, but it was too late to change it. That’s one of the reasons the book is no longer available, so if you’re lucky enough to have one, hang on to it; it’s a collector. A new story for the effect was written, but a new picture was never drawn, so the story remained unpublished.

However as I was going through my archives of drawings, I happened to discover that, in fact, a new drawing had been done by Jason Montoya. What a lucky surprise for me, and for you, so this month we have the new drawing and the real name.

The real name of the effect is Penetrating Transfer, and it’s this month’s Saga:

The air was thick with tension as the customers watched in raw anticipation.  The balance began at a mere one-hundred dollars.  Then suddenly, like a screaming banshee in the night, the balance changed from one-hundred to three-hundred.  The crowd went wild like a pack of church mice in a gas chamber.

The moment was incredible, for at the exact instant that the balance became three-hundred, another balance went from two-hundred to zero.  It was then that all realized the money was merely transferred from one account to another.  But to say it was “merely” transferred, is an understatement.

It was transferred like a mayonnaise-filled donut in a three ring midget circus.  I know I’m not making sense, but the moment was so intense that these words are the closest words there are to describe the feelings that occurred at the moment of the transfer.

Everywhere, people were commenting about the event.  “It was riveting; I couldn’t believe it,” I heard someone say.  Another yelled, “more mayo-donuts please.” And believe it or not, one person even confessed that of all the transfers she had seen that this, this one transfer was the most Penetrating Transfer ever in the history of transfers.

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