by Christian Hartsock | Oct 15, 2019 | Featured Story, Nonfiction, Read
Chinatown - Dissecting the Screenplay By Christian Hartsock ; Robert Towne’s Chinatown is some of the most efficient screenwriting in the history of screenwriting and storytelling. Yet it never feels as if it’s in a hurry. It isn’t, like most linear story...
by Alfred Searls | Sep 26, 2019 | Fiction, Issue No 5, Read
The Valley By Alfred Searls ; Central Bosnia, February 1993 Armies had marched through the valley long before it had a name, long before the first hardy souls had dared to call it home. Within the lee of its steep walls the Goths and the Gepids had flowed...
by cinderq | Sep 24, 2019 | Fiction, Issue No 5, Read
Prayer Therapy By Marisa Whitney ; A light rain falls invisibly from a pure white sky. It does little to quench the warm November afternoon. Shannon is sitting on a picnic bench she has dragged close to the fire in her backyard. Her husband had asked her to burn the...
by Dick Yaeger | Sep 24, 2019 | Fiction, Issue No 5, Read
An Amazon’s Tale, Part Three By Dick Yaeger ; Chapter 11 “INCOMING” blasted repeatedly from a loudspeaker above us. The robotic warnings pounded my head and numbed my thoughts. A second explosion—this one closer—overwhelmed the shrill siren. George pushed me to the...
by Jennifer Milne | Sep 2, 2019 | Fiction, Issue No 5, Read
Anomaly, Part Three By Jennifer Milne ; Read Part One and Part Two of “Anomaly” first. TENThe Present When I got back, I found that my plan had worked exactly as I’d hoped it would. Honestly, my life was absolutely perfect. My Dad was still alive and he...
by cinderq | Sep 1, 2019 | Fiction, Issue No 5, Read
Orphan City By Bokerah Brumley ; Maybe the position isn’t as hard as the brochures imply. I press my nose to the backseat glass as my hand drifts over the paper in my pants pocket. Burn out rate could be a problem. The staff might be substandard. My thoughts...
Chinatown – Dissecting the ScreenplayIn Featured Story, Nonfiction, ReadIn what a lesser film would treat as a forgettably functional, utilitarian scene in service of the next story beat, Towne infuses with situational humor, interpersonal politics, colorful character beats and mundane yet identifiable and immediately relatable stakes--on top of a stirring cornerstone revelation.
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