FPPE
Written by
Arthur R. H. Wasem Sr.
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EXT. TIDAL REEF - NIGHT
ADAIN, dishevelled twenty something screenwriter, master burrito maker at Taco Bell walks with his girlfriend, TIF, a brunette too beautiful to be a background actress and more suited as a bikini model, on a reef under a Full Moon.
ADAIN
I’m so frustrated Tif, I can’t even get
a meeting. I wish we had never came out
here from Ohio.
TIF
You just have to believe in yourself
honey. You have to give it more than 6
weeks. I love it here.
ADAIN
Of course you do. You’re doing it.
TIF
Are you kidding? I’m working background.
You know I played the lead in the Wooster
Community Theater presentation of...
ADAIN TIF (CONT'D)
Beauty and the Beast. Beauty and the Beast.
TIF (CONT’D)
I am a real actress.
ADAIN
And I’m a real writer. I just wish
something would happen. Anything.
Bending down and picking something up from the reef.
ADAIN (CONT’D)
Hey Tif I found a starfish.
TIF
Adain do you remember that song One Eyed,
One Horn, Flying Purple People Eater?
ADAIN
Yeah, my Dad use to tell me that was the
Number One song the year he was born.
TIF
Um, turn around. Fast. Adain there’s one
behind you.
ADAIN
What are you talking about?
As Adain turns the monster leans over and bites him in half. After swallowing he bites again and the entire body is gone.
TIF
Wow, you ate my boyfriend. Are we good?
You full, cause this would make a great
one page story for a competition the boy
you just ate told me about.
MONSTER
Burp.
Tif turns, walks then runs quickly away adding writer to her list of credits.
THE END.