CHAPTER VII of POD PEOPLE

OUTLINE  for  CHAPTER  VII

Illustration:print media ad for 1953 Ford p/u w/white walls; all happy onlookers growing sadder(use digital effects) and then fading until the town is dusty and deserted just like in “The Last Picture Show”

SCENE  ONE

JAKE’s truck roars to life on his second try, and as the jail facility grows ever smaller in his back glass, strains of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT’s big hit “Mr. Wendall” escape from his ‘popping’ AM-radio.

SCENE  TWO

Instead of confinement in that tiny cell, JAKE sped past all his usual ‘haunts’ which are now ‘old waste places(Isaiah 58:12);’ he realizes that he is searching for old friends, but none can be found.

Note:the next three scenes are in reverse order chronologically(perhaps provide date/time so reader will not be so confused),  ...but the narrative plods straight forward as if ‘normal time’ is just an unnecessary ‘confusion’

SCENE  THREE

JAKE finds out, through an intermediary that is hollering through our cell-door, a message from his newly-arrived ‘homey,’ just what has become of his trailer(read that as home; JAKE has been ‘inside’ for a year), and all of his friends.

SCENE  FOUR

JAKE, in a conversation with UNDERDAWG, tries desperately to un-confuse him, before CHAPTER VII is finished.  Note:without ‘spoiler alert’ for material introduced in scene five, this scene should convey the collaborative ‘nature’ of Pod People

SCENE  FIVE

As soon as JAKE sits up(after his excursion), he commences telling UNDERDAWG, who wants to see the jail facility shut down completely, that his friends ‘got tired’ out on the street, and just went ‘home.’  He explains what he means by this; that he couldn’t ‘see’ his friends from his truck, because they have returned to jail or prison.

*inclusion of ‘outline,’ in lieu of actual full-length CHAPTER VII, is a ‘literary device’ used by the author to solve a pressing problem; on Easter Sunday(the occasion of this writing, and the thirty-third day behind bars), this author had only two sheets of note-paper left

NOTE  to  PUBLISHER(on ‘NOTES’):

INTRODUCTION can include these ‘tidbits’ on the writer’s craft, well before the reader is confronted by them in the several CHAPTERS(* RE:paper shortage should be printed with OUTLINE just as presented here)