They sat on her bed that was covered in black satin sheets. She was in her embroidered antique kimono and wearing her lace gloves, writing songs. The silk curtains stayed shut, the mirrored ball scattering rainbows onto the walls. Then their bodies were smoke and color and music. Their eyes were always damp with love now, their skin was soaked with the scent of fire and roses.
He lit his cigarette, knowing it wasn’t right when his lungs caught fire in a different way this time. Anything could be healed with Chinese herbal tea, chunks of gnarled ginger, tofu sunk in fish broth. Crystals soaked in salt water to purify them, to absorb the illnesses. No doctors, unnatural healing was not to be mentioned. Roaming the sky, stars shooting across, shooting up after shows.
When they opened his lungs they found the blackness love could not cure.
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Screenplay
FADE IN ON: CLASSROOM - DAY
Anna, a young, high school girl, sits in her desk staring into space, her face is entirely blank of emotion. Sounds of chatter, whispers and talking give the idea of a free period or a study hall.
A cell phone rings with a thrashing guitar ring tone. Anna answers the phone.
ANNA (Emotionless)
Hello?
VOICE
Anna, this is Dad. I just wanted to tell you I’m so proud of you, and that I’m sorry I couldn’t make it to graduation. Maybe next time sweetheart.
The phone signals that there is another call. Anna clicks over without saying anything to her father.
CUT TO: BEDROOM – NIGHT
The bedroom is dark, lit only by a few candles and the moonlight that is bathing the carpet through the open window.
Anna sits on the bed next to her boyfriend, Jason, in his boxers, wearing a black tank top and white underwear.
JASON
I cheated on you last weekend.
Anna doesn’t say anything, but leans forward and kisses his neck.
JASON
We were both so wasted from that party at Derrick’s place, and we just started going at each other in his bedroom.
Anna kisses him softly on the lips.
She pushes off the bed and walks over to the door and shuts it, and stands there emotionless in front of the white door.
CUT TO: BATHROOM – NIGHT
Anna’s face stands out against the white door. Soft candle light flickers off her eyes. She stands in a towel looking at her self in the bathroom mirror. She turns on the hot water and starts to fill the tub. The towel drops to her feet and she enters the tub. Anna lays in the bath, her eyes slowly closing.
FADE TO: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HALLWAY – DAY
The school is empty with the exception of a few kids who are waiting to picked up by their parents.Signs made by the younger students announce an upcoming Easter Pagent, are littered across the walls and ground.
Anna stands in the hallway, looking at her surroundings. She spots an open classroom and walks towards it. She stands in the doorway and looks in.
CUT TO: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASSROOM – DAY
Mr. Perkins, a man in his mid-thirties, already balding, leans on the front of his desk, talking to one of his student, Young Anna.
PERKINS
Now, Anna, we both know that you haven’t been doing too well in class lately. Your test scores have dropped a bit, and you haven’t been turning in any homework.
He glances at his grade book.
PERKINS
And it looks like you may have to be held back. The only thing that could help you now is if you did a little extra credit work after school and hope that it’s good enough for me to pass you.
Perkins leans forward and gets down on Anna’s level, and grins.
PERKINS (Softly)
But, you can’t tell anyone about this ever, or we could both get into a lot of trouble.
Young Anna nods.
VOICE
How could you let him do that to me?
Anna turns to see her younger self standing there, her hair messy and her school dress wrinkled and miss buttoned.
YOUNG ANNA
Why did you let Mr. Perkins do that to me, Anna? Why?
ANNA
I didn’t mean for…
Her cell phone rings.
She stands there looking at Young Anna, to the cell phone, back to Young Anna. Young Anna looks at the cell phone. Tears run down Anna’s cheek as the phone continues to ring.
CUT TO:
BATHROOM – NIGHT
Someone knocks on the bathroom door.
Blood drips into a small puddle on the white bathroom tile from a slender hand.
MOTHER
Anna, be careful not to fall asleep in there again. It’s too easy to drown in that damn tub.
FADE OUT
Anna, a young, high school girl, sits in her desk staring into space, her face is entirely blank of emotion. Sounds of chatter, whispers and talking give the idea of a free period or a study hall.
A cell phone rings with a thrashing guitar ring tone. Anna answers the phone.
ANNA (Emotionless)
Hello?
VOICE
Anna, this is Dad. I just wanted to tell you I’m so proud of you, and that I’m sorry I couldn’t make it to graduation. Maybe next time sweetheart.
The phone signals that there is another call. Anna clicks over without saying anything to her father.
CUT TO: BEDROOM – NIGHT
The bedroom is dark, lit only by a few candles and the moonlight that is bathing the carpet through the open window.
Anna sits on the bed next to her boyfriend, Jason, in his boxers, wearing a black tank top and white underwear.
JASON
I cheated on you last weekend.
Anna doesn’t say anything, but leans forward and kisses his neck.
JASON
We were both so wasted from that party at Derrick’s place, and we just started going at each other in his bedroom.
Anna kisses him softly on the lips.
She pushes off the bed and walks over to the door and shuts it, and stands there emotionless in front of the white door.
CUT TO: BATHROOM – NIGHT
Anna’s face stands out against the white door. Soft candle light flickers off her eyes. She stands in a towel looking at her self in the bathroom mirror. She turns on the hot water and starts to fill the tub. The towel drops to her feet and she enters the tub. Anna lays in the bath, her eyes slowly closing.
FADE TO: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HALLWAY – DAY
The school is empty with the exception of a few kids who are waiting to picked up by their parents.Signs made by the younger students announce an upcoming Easter Pagent, are littered across the walls and ground.
Anna stands in the hallway, looking at her surroundings. She spots an open classroom and walks towards it. She stands in the doorway and looks in.
CUT TO: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CLASSROOM – DAY
Mr. Perkins, a man in his mid-thirties, already balding, leans on the front of his desk, talking to one of his student, Young Anna.
PERKINS
Now, Anna, we both know that you haven’t been doing too well in class lately. Your test scores have dropped a bit, and you haven’t been turning in any homework.
He glances at his grade book.
PERKINS
And it looks like you may have to be held back. The only thing that could help you now is if you did a little extra credit work after school and hope that it’s good enough for me to pass you.
Perkins leans forward and gets down on Anna’s level, and grins.
PERKINS (Softly)
But, you can’t tell anyone about this ever, or we could both get into a lot of trouble.
Young Anna nods.
VOICE
How could you let him do that to me?
Anna turns to see her younger self standing there, her hair messy and her school dress wrinkled and miss buttoned.
YOUNG ANNA
Why did you let Mr. Perkins do that to me, Anna? Why?
ANNA
I didn’t mean for…
Her cell phone rings.
She stands there looking at Young Anna, to the cell phone, back to Young Anna. Young Anna looks at the cell phone. Tears run down Anna’s cheek as the phone continues to ring.
CUT TO:
BATHROOM – NIGHT
Someone knocks on the bathroom door.
Blood drips into a small puddle on the white bathroom tile from a slender hand.
MOTHER
Anna, be careful not to fall asleep in there again. It’s too easy to drown in that damn tub.
FADE OUT
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Independent #7
Bet you'll never guess the inspiration for this peice...EVANESCENCE! yeah! in some of her earlier work, she expresses the abusive relationship she was in, and trying to get away from all of the pain it was causing her. although i have never been involved in an abusive relationship, thankfully, i wrote about letting go to pain that you cant really talk about with anyone, so i guess the people referred to as "they" in this peice are unexsistant spirits who are holding in simillar pain. thats about it, read it!
_______________________________________
Beg this broken heart to beat
Beg my lungs to breathe again
Frozen in myself, I need to escape.
This music comes from haunted souls
And all I hear are sorrowful words
Words that never should be heard
Words of pain and suffering
And I know their hardships, I feel their hurting.
And I can relate, although I keep this smile on my face
The words they sing, they see right through me.
They know I’m real.
They know I feel.
Because we share our hurting together.
I scream into the night, into their souls
To let out the pain.
They scream to take this pain
But no one hears us scream.
And there in lies the hurt.
And there it sits, and always will.
Bottled in our hearts.
Beating or not. Loving or not.
_______________________________________
Beg this broken heart to beat
Beg my lungs to breathe again
Frozen in myself, I need to escape.
This music comes from haunted souls
And all I hear are sorrowful words
Words that never should be heard
Words of pain and suffering
And I know their hardships, I feel their hurting.
And I can relate, although I keep this smile on my face
The words they sing, they see right through me.
They know I’m real.
They know I feel.
Because we share our hurting together.
I scream into the night, into their souls
To let out the pain.
They scream to take this pain
But no one hears us scream.
And there in lies the hurt.
And there it sits, and always will.
Bottled in our hearts.
Beating or not. Loving or not.
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