IRIS (CONT’D)
Fuck! No! Oh fuck-
Panic overtakes her. She scrambles to find her seatbelt and unlock herself. She finally does - her head hits the ceiling.
She’s pinned upside down. Completely stuck.
Hyperventilating, crying, she flails about.
It doesn’t work.
SPLASH. Liquid drips onto her chin. The bead dribbles up her jaw towards her mouth.
The flailing finally starts to work.
She loosens one leg free of the carnage - still in tact.
Balancing on her craned neck and shoulders, she pulls into a one-legged fetal position and mule-kicks what’s left of the door.
She kicks. And kicks. And kicks.
She wrestles the other leg free. Now she’s kicking with both legs.
It’s not enough force. She inches further from the door to get more momentum.
Her ARM touches something wet and cold - LACY.
IRIS (CONT’D)
Ugh! Fuck! Come on!
She elbows the body towards the opposite door, swiping her arms through glass and more pooling liquid.
IRIS (CONT’D)
Fucking! Open! Up!
With a SCREAM, she kicks as hard as she can-
Whatever’s left of the cartoon accordion driver’s door cracks open.
Again and again she kicks, inching it open until finally its cracked enough to get out.
Now the hard part - to somehow turn around and climb out of the wreckage.
She rolls up into a ball and turns onto her side. Then onto her stomach.
And little by little, inch by inch, onto her feet, back hunched. She slowly unspools, scraping herself across the jagged edges of the crumpled frame, until she reaches through-
Page 2. fin. If you’re reading this and missed Page 1, here it is. It’s four minutes to midnight so I better publish this now to stay on brand. I had planned to teach everyone a few things about the screenwriting format but that will have to come tomorrow.
I will share one anecdote. It’s quite symbolic that I wrote yesterday’s opening page about a car wreck and then I got into one. Luckily mine was just a fender bender, but there’s a reason they tell you to look behind you when you back up. More on that in Page 3.
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