Category: Storytelling

It all started in late summer. A small twin engine prop plane began flying lower in the sky than i’ve seen before and dipped lowest above our house. thats about the same time dad started acting a bit…strange.

“You bring your umbrella with you today son?! my dad would say. “Dad its been sunny as shit, just like every other day in death valley” I would reply. “why do you keep asking us that?

he would dodge the question and begin spraying fabreeze by bottle on every inch of my house. The floor would make a wet squish with every step after words. like a linen scented swamp. Shit was weird.

One day i saw pops chatting with this guy in a naval captains hat, hawaiian shirt with maitais cocktails on it and rainbow flip flops. He was looking pretty angry. I’ve been hearing about a guy like chatting with other neighboers recently. Nobody had a good thing to say about him. all muttering something about not paying, and what a load a crap. and oh shit really? It was tough peicing together what they where talking about but i didnt want to make a stink about it.

Then it happened. pheeeeeeeeeeeeeeww…PLOP! blue stained caca bomb’s dropped from the sky.

“I can’t believe that son of bitch did it” dad said clutching his opened umbrella in the dinning room. “where’s your umbrella shithead!?”

Concept?
1) Narrative of a redneckish, broke San Jauqin valley California family from the point of view of all of the members like This is Us
Some neighbor telling the story of all the crap that the family has done or the schemes they’ve come up with
2) Story told through the eyes of the people they’ve interacted with; the family wants to burn everything in the house to buy some new rent -a – center shit and it’s told from the Fire department or the senior loving apartments next door.

Theme?
Good people are made not born and they can be made in any number of ways; even wicked ways.

Main characters:
Siblings: Mary, Waylon, Alton, Jamison
Parents: Laurel, Lynnette

Episode one -There was a boom
(story is told from a senior citizen from next door)
Scene starts with Waylon as a child digging a massive hole in the back yard as the old man watches through some holes in the fence smoking a cigarette.
Act 1: Discover why Waylon is digging a whole through family and old man exposition.
Act 2: Build up to the boom with funny interactions from Laurel and Brothers,
Act 3: Boom Happens, the Family deals with the fallout of boom and the raucous it caused and learns there is too much of a good thing.

free writing expirencuru\\\

white queens silky black dress hung off loosely, drowning the shrunken and delicate body within. its been years since she’s been to a funeral, least of all a member of the royal family.