Branches Book

BRANCHES

Duke Nicholson

SHINE ON

FADE IN: WHITE TEXT ON BLACK BACKGROUND “We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.” FADE IN: EXT. EMPY ROAD – NIGHT POV, Driver’s seat. The headlights of a truck dash across an empty highway... A thick rumbling of the truck engine echoes through the night. 50s doo-wop music plays in the background, as a faint layer of static slowly increases, eventually muffling the entire sound. INT. TRUCK – NIGHT BOBBY sits in the driver’s seat. He has a thick white hair, a long beard, and a very distinct scar across his face, causing his right eye to shut halfway. He is caught off guard by the overwhelming static. BOBBY Damn it. He flips through the channels frantically, with no luck. All static. Until, Wagner’s “Tannhauser Overture” comes onto the radio. BOBBY There we go. The sound is crisp. He closes his eyes, and breathes in. He turns up the volume of the music, until it completely covers to rumbling of the old truck’s engine.

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