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Challenge of the Month XLI
Begin a story or poem about your first memory, but write it in the style of a Tarantino or Charlie Kaufman screenplay. Where it goes from there, use any style you want. Open the belly, bleed on the page. Winner gets 100 big ones. Go.
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WRKNG TITLE: Visions

INT. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HALLWAY, PAINTED TEAL. MID MORNING

C/U HANDPRINT PAINTINGS TAPED TO THE WALLS, AN IGLOO MADE FROM MILK JUGS

BLACK FRAME

TITLE APPEARS:

Chapter One: Second Grade

CUT TO:

C/U CHILD'S HAND PULLING AT HER DRESS

SUBTITLE APPEARS AT BOTTOM:

"Greenview Elementary, 2001"

CUT TO LITTLE GIRL, FULL BODY

An ethnically ambiguous little girl of about six or seven is standing in the hallway looking around nervously. She has messy, near-black curly hair, hazel eyes, and is wearing a purple overall dress, a pink t-shirt and glitter jelly sandals that light up as she anxiously shuffles her feet. She is at the head of a line of twenty-one first graders. A TEACHER, a heavyset middle aged woman with roller-curled ashy blonde hair and a thick southern accent, ushers them into a classroom.

TEACHER:

Okay, kids. Let's head inside. Did everyone have fun in art today?

CHILDREN:

(a cacophony of little voices says "Yes, Mrs. Randall")

MRS. RANDALL:

Okay, Marissa. You're the line leader. You ready?

The little girl, Marissa, nods quietly and walks into the decorated classroom.

C/U MARISSA'S SANDALS FLASHING COLORS AS SHE WALKS INTO THE CLASSROOM

CUT TO:

C/U ON MARISSA'S EYES

THE SCENE ZOOMS OUT TO SHOW HER FULL FACE

CUT TO MARISSA, FULL BODY:

Standing in the hallway looking around with confusion and mild panic. She is wearing the same outfit as before. Her shoes light up as she shuffles her feet.

C/U ABSTRACT SHOTS OF HANDPRINT PAINTINGS, THE IGLOO MADE FROM MILK JUGS, TEAL WALLS.

CUT TO MRS. RANDALL, STANDING BY THE CLASROOM DOOR.

MRS. RANDALL:

Okay, kids. Let's head inside. Did everyone have fun in art today?

CHILDREN:

(a cacophony of little voices says "Yes, Mrs. Randall")

MRS. RANDALL:

Okay, Marissa. You're the line leader. You ready?

Marissa, trying to shake the eerie feeling swelling in her chest, doesn't answer right away.

MRS. RANDALL:

Marissa? You okay, hun?

Marissa breaks from her thoughts, mumbles in acknowledgement, shoves her hands into the pockets of her dress, and walks into the classroom. Mrs. Randall watches her curiously.

C/U MARISSA'S SANDALS FLASHING COLORS AS SHE WALKS INTO THE CLASSROOM

FADE TO BLACK.

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