Saturday, September 12, 2009

writing notes

soundbites
june, 1940's - a young girl in college has a bicycle wreck on a gravel road resulting in temporary memory loss. a bystander rushes her to the hospital. when she comes to she doesn't know who she is. just that it is wednesday. but the word wednesday means nothing to her, it's just there in her head. she had an exam on wednesday. the word could mean anything to her though. that is to say, it had no meaning. she may as well have been saying that the day was "peach pie." and it would have meant the same. gibberish. the man who rushed her to the hospital goes back for her bike. there he finds her girl friend standing over the bike asking what happened to m. now the bicycle girl is identified and her sister is informed. her sister tries to get a ride to the hospital from the next door neighbor, one of the wealthiest families in town, but the wife is upstairs getting ready to play bridge. she needs her driver and says no. the driver ignores this order and helps the girl - takes her to the hospital to see her injured sister. he's not worried about being fired because he knows where the bodies in that family are buried.

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