12 and holding
by
Anthony S. Cipriano
FADE IN:
EXT. NEIGHBORHOOD STREET - MORNING
TWIN BOYS, RUDY AND JACOB CARGES (12), ride their bikes
through a suburban neighborhood.
Rudy, the more athletic of the two, rides at a breakneck
pace. Jacob rides slowly due to a HOCKEY MASK that he wears
over his face. It??s making it difficult for him to see. The
boys turn down a DIRT PATH and ride deep into some
A rail-rider comes chugging along the tracks. Aboard is ARNIE WESTRUM, a big man in a strappy T-shirt and chino pants. He is drinking beer.
ARNIE (sings)
My beer is Rheingold the dry beer...
Think of Rheingold whenever you buy beer...
He drains the rest of his own bottle of Rheingold and tosses it to one side. Up ahead we see a switching point.
ARNIE throws the rail-rider into neutral, opens the
WHITE SQUALL
by
Todd Robinson
FADE IN:
SUPER: A TRUE STORY - MYSTIC HARBOR CONNECTICUT 1994
CREDITS OVER
Wind on the water. Soaring gulls and sand pipers glide
over the pilings and sagging bulkheads.
OLDER CHUCK (V.O.)
Though I hadnt seen or spoken to
Sheldrake in over thirty years, it
seemed impossible that his heart was
the thing that had finally failed
him...
??
INT. LATE MODEL CAR - SAME
CHUC
220 meters over mean surface...
largely cinder and gypsum with some
evaporite deposits....
JETTISON DOORS CLOSE behind Owens, segregating him from the
passenger compartment. It scares him for a new reason.
OWENS
Fry? Whatre you doing?
INT. FLIGHT DECK - DAY
Fry flips up a new security-latch. INTERCUTTING:
OWENS
Fry?
FRY
Cant get my nose down...too much load
back there....
OWENS
You mean that "l
cinder like that!
But how would that make us
stronger for him?
One of these days,
my Lord is going to come to me...
and ask me for an explanation...
for the lives of each
and every one of you.
What am I going to tell him
on that day?
That I was busy?
That I was tired?
That I was bored?
No! I can never let up!
I welcome his test.
I welcome this challenge
from my Lord...
so that one day I can deliv