Saturday, November 04, 2017

November 2017 Writing Challenge - #4 - A Serious Sandwich

Hungry?

Have a simple ABA plot.

A serious sandwich is always fun- setting up a joke premise and then taking it seriously for a bit, before tossing it all out with a flourish of wit or stupidity. 

The joke forms the bun. It makes the excuse. It carries the cheese to the consumer.

Apparently this is a cheese sandwich.

Bonus if the serious thing- the cheese- is deeply unique and specific and lush. Oh my god make it lush! Make us transport with you to taste and touch and feel everything in this moment before you release us.

I'm hungry.

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Just gonna keep pushing myself on this one idea until I run out of steam.

I'm starting to get the sinking feeling I may need at least one, perhaps two, more songs in order to cover all the relationships Auggie the musician is processing.  That'll be a task for another day.  Just marking down things as they cross my mind.

Here, we have Sarah and Jeffrey trying to negotiate the awkward situation of having to come up with the antidote to set Sarah's husband Auggie free from his current magical infatuation with Micah.

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SARAH, looking over the recipe for the antidote with JEFFREY.

                          SARAH
So the only thing we're missing is - this.

                          JEFFREY
Right.

                          SARAH
And none of the stores in town have any.

                          JEFFREY
Duncan checked.  Everybody's out. 

                          SARAH
You'd think if they keep all the ingredients for the love potion on hand, or anything, really, they'd always keep the stuff for the antidotes handy, too.

                          JEFFREY
Maybe there's more people undoing than doing the spell?

                          SARAH
Well, that should have been your first hint, shouldn't it?

                          JEFFREY
Duncan has some contacts in nearby cities so he feels pretty confident he can track some down and get it here quickly.

                          SARAH
How quickly?

                          JEFFREY
Still waiting for word on that.
                         
                          SARAH
Should we call?

                          JEFFREY
I'm pretty sure he'll call as soon as he knows.

                          SARAH
Pretty sure, huh?

                          JEFFREY
He's trying to impress me.

                          SARAH
Really.

                          JEFFREY
     (a bit bashful)
Yeah.

                          SARAH
There must be something in the water lately.
Forget I said that.

                          JEFFREY
No magic this time.

                          SARAH
You learned your lesson a day late it seems.

                          JEFFREY
Yeah.  Sorry about that.

                          SARAH
You realize what an impossible position this puts me in, right?

                          JEFFREY
We get all the ingredients, it should work, undo the damage.

                          SARAH
And after?

                          JEFFREY
After?

                          SARAH
How am I supposed to trust either of you again?  You or Michah?

                          JEFFREY
Oh.

                          SARAH
Yeah.
I mean, they're best friends.  They're almost maddeningly in sync with each other, almost but not quite dependent on each other.  It's hard not to be jealous sometimes.  But now -
I can't forbid them to see each other.
But I can't really trust them alone together anymore, can I?

                          JEFFREY
I am never going to ever do anything like this ever again.

                          SARAH
Yeah, but this isn't a line you cross, is it?
If Micah was willing to do this -

                          JEFFREY
Neither of us thought it would work.

                          SARAH
You keep saying that like it matters.  You both did it anyway!

                          JEFFREY
Sorry.

                          SARAH
Let's just - put together the stuff we can.  Make sure we've got everything all set up.  That way when your new pal comes through for us, we can just add that last ingredient and get it to Auggie.

                          JEFFREY
OK.

They work, silently.  Awkwardly.




(to be continued)

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