Monday, March 6, 2017

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OWEN NICHOLAS plays with the speaker dock when grown-ups aren't looking. He presses buttons, then bangs up and down on the top with his toys, then puts the cables in his mouth and sucks on the ends of them. Then he picks at the wax in the wax warmer and mashes it into the buttons. Now, somehow, there is an alarm that goes off at 7 AM every day, and nobody can figure out how to turn it off. The alarm stays set, even if you unplug the dock and plug it back in. So even on the mornings when Owen doesn't wake us up, he's still waking us up.

JAMES DAVIS looks out his window and sees "a bright yellow planet, covered in methane gas, the second planet from the sun. It looks like the brightest star in the sky--it's Venus!" Owen says that he sees Venus too, and James says that Owen isn't allowed to look at it, because Venus is James' planet.

OWEN NICHOLAS rides in the stroller and complains because he isn't allowed to hold a bird. All the crows fly away before we get to them and Daddy won't run fast enough to catch one.

JAMES DAVIS is lying on the ground, too hungry to move. It will be another twenty minutes until lunch, and chicken pizza. He's been offered salad, but he is only too hungry to move for pizza. Owen keeps on stepping on his head on purpose, but he says "sorry" after he does it each time. James just needs pizza.

OWEN NICHOLAS has found James' Steven on the downstairs couch. He says James gave it to him. He says "Steven is Owen's now."

1 comment:

  1. Hi, i love your story, very simple and direct to the point, but i really wonder how i complete my screen play. Some characters are still missing...:( I have a screen play blog and finding little difficulties nowadays.

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