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writings
"Peckers" Lately, my fifth-grade son has been drawing boobs and peckers on his class assignments. My wife Susie brings home one of Danny’s construction paper artworks with a Post-It Note from the teacher attached that says, “Please re-enforce the message that this imagery is inappropriate.” The imagery appears to be a stick-figure with a giant phallus pointing straight down. I could argue to Mrs. Peterson that an archetype is working through Danny, but I don’t. One of my work-crews roofed her house last summer. Read more
Dave’s in the middle of this outpatient treatment program with a bunch of other court-ordered drunks because three weeks ago he got off his shift at the community college where he works as a lead maintenance technician, had too many beers at Applebee’s bar and drove his Harley Heritage Softail into a row of mailboxes and ended up concussed on some guy’s driveway. Read more
Nancy is in a fetal curl on the kitchen floor as she phones her husband at work. "I called an ambulance," she says. "My stomach kills." "Is it on the way?" asks Wade. "Is what on the way?"
Your task is to read the opening scene from the following unfinished screenplay and keep writing until you finish a three-act screenplay, which you will present at semester's end in my office. Read more |
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