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Hearthville Serial: Book 6 – Episode 18 – Scene 1

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All characters are fiction. This story is fiction. This story makes no claims about any real person.

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By Charles Peters

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(Note that Amelia is not me making a statement on feminism so don’t go down that road. LOL)

Music in Scene:

Music, The Smiths – The Charming Man

                                                                                          FADE IN:

EXT. OTHERWORLD REALM, DRIVE-IN, VICTOR DUDDLEY'S ORANGE
MUSTANG - NIGHT

Music, The Smiths - The Charming Man

https://youtu.be/cJRP3LRcUFg

The backdoors to the mustang open.  At first who opened the
doors is a mystery. Then a lost soul appears at each door.
Their eyes are hollow.  Their stare is blank as is their
expression.  They climb into the backseat with BILLY BINGO.

                      BILLY BINGO
          What the fuck?

VICTOR DUDDLEY turns and looks at them.  DONNY MAXTONE
knocks on the window to where Victor is sitting in the car.
Victor rolls the window down.

                      DONNY MAXTONE
          There is no reason to be afraid.
          They are lost souls.  Almost in the
          sleep, sleep walking.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          Donny.  Am I dead?

                      DONNY MAXTONE
          No.  I am not sure what you are
          doing on this side but you and
          Billy are not dead.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          I am so glad to see you. Even if
          this is only a dream, such a
          wonderful dream.

Donny Maxtone smiles at Victor.

                      DONNY MAXTONE
          If but this were a dream and I
          could wake and be with my Lilly.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          And I could be with Jossette.

                      BILLY BINGO
          So why are you dreaming about The
          Smiths singing "The Charming Man."

                      DONNY MAXTONE
          You know the music?

                      BILLY BINGO
          My mom likes them.

Billy is seated between the two lost souls and he looks at
them.

                      BILLY BINGO
          I would really like to get home.  I
          am kind of scared right now.

                      DONNY MAXTONE
          There is no reason to be scared of
          them.  I wish I knew how to help
          them.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          Yeah. And Amelia.  If only we could
          help her.

                      DONNY MAXTONE
          You remember Amelia?

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          In my dreams.  Sitting at that big
          table. And there she is.  So
          beautiful.  And powerful.  You
          know, she created all of this.

                      DONNY MAXTONE
          And she became a prisoner of her
          own prison.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          And she gave us my brother Jesus to
          save us from this prison.  Or that
          was my dream that I dreamed.  I
          wonder.  Where is my brother?  Has
          he also fallen into the sleep.

                      DONNY MAXTONE
          I don't know.

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          In my dream there are Space Alien
          Witches.  They think they are
          superior.  They think they know
          everything.  They don't have a clue
          that they are also prisoners of
          this system, this creation of
          Amelia.  They think they are
          writing the rules but they don't
          even know the rules.

                      DONNY MAXTONE
          And  you do?

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          I don't know.  It is just a dream.
          It can't be real.

                      BILLY BINGO
          Does Iapetus know who Amelia is?

                      DONNY MAXTONE
          I guess he will know soon enough.

                      BILLY BINGO
          Not from my lips.  I don't think he
          should know.

                      DONNY MAXTONE
          Why?

Billy Bingo starts to cry.

                      BILLY BINGO
          To know that God herself is like
          these two lost souls making me
          their sandwich, it is fucking sad.

Billy Bingo shapeshifts to be more muscular and older.  He
puts his arms around the two lost souls. LOST SOUL LEFT
smiles at Billy.

                      BILLY BINGO
          I am sorry that I was scared of
          you.

                      LOST SOUL LEFT
          Are we not to drink the cup that
          the Mother Mary has given us?
          There is no reason to be sorry.

LOST SOUL RIGHT takes Billy's hand.

                      LOST SOUL RIGHT
          But try to not get so drunk on life
          that you forget that you are a god
          with a purpose.

The lost souls vanish.

                      BILLY BINGO
          Were they really lost souls?

                      DONNY MAXTONE
          Or Amelia's angels?

                      VICTOR DUDDLEY
          Could she have sent them?  Does she
          truly sleep?

                      DONNY MAXTONE
          I don't know.