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VALERIE FLAMES - CHAPTER TWO

PAGE 1

Panels 1-4 or 5 or 6

I am envisioning this page as something akin to how we handled page 1 of “Reverberation (Doubt)“—a lot of tiny detail panels on the top and bottom, with one big panel in the middle.

This top tier, I’d essentially like to see the plane from Valerie’s future right itself and get out of the pit in her back yard. The sequence could contain all or some of the following:

1. Holes open in the nose of the plane, just under the cockpit.

2. Spider-like arms with circular pads/feet on the end extend from the holes.

3. Once the pads hit ground, the arms begin to lift the plane’s nose out of the pit.

4. Similar arms come out of the tail of the plane. (This could be combined with 3 if we see the whole plane there.)

5. As momentum tips the tail, the pads in the back catch it.

6. The plane is upright on four “legs.”

MIDDLE PANEL

A large image from inside the hull of the ship. A drawbridge/plank has lowered in the back, creating a loading ramp. Dennis and Valerie are pushing her Corsair up the ramp, toward the reader.

This will be our first time seeing the pug, HENRY. He follows behind Valerie, tongue hanging out, slobbering. He’s a black pug with a lopsided face.

            DENNIS: This is so weird, Valerie. That lady is you…

            DENNIS (second): …but all grown up!

            VALERIE: I know. Just when I think I’ve seen everything there is to see…

            VALERIE (second): …the world hands me another surprise.

            VALERIE (third): I wonder what she wants?

BOTTOM ROW.

The panel count should probably equal the decision you make for the top row. This one shows the plane taking off.

1. The back door closes.

2. The wings rotate so that the powering engines are facing upward.

3. The engines—be they flames or propellers—start.

4. The plane lifts straight off the ground.

5. It floats above Valerie’s house.

6. They fly away.

PAGE 2

Panel 1

Future Valerie sits at the controls in the cockpit. Behind her, Dennis and Henry enter.

              DENNIS: That take-off was awesome!

              FUTURE VALERIE: Glad you liked it, Dennis. Where’s Valerie? 

              DENNIS: Valerie is making sure the Corsair is all squared away. Then
                             she’ll be right up.

Panel 2

Future Valerie hits the autopilot button. Perhaps just her finger hitting a big button clearly marked “AUTOPILOT.”

              FUTURE VALERIE: I’ve got our course all programmed.

              FUTURE VALERIE (second): The plane will take care of itself from here.

Panel 3

As Future V. gets out of her chair, she sees Henry for the first time. She seems touched, maybe a little surprised.

              FUTURE VALERIE: Goodness, is that Henry?

              DENNIS: Yeah. I guess he probably isn’t still alive where you come from?

Panel 4

Valerie crouches down, extends her hand to the pug. He sniffs it.

             FUTURE VALERIE: Sadly, no.

             FUTURE VALERIE (second): It’s been a long time, old buddy.

             SFX: snff snff

Panel 5

Henry cocks his head, he looks at her hand like he doesn’t understand.

             HENRY (sfx): Ruhh?

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There was a guy that Parker dated in college who initially looked as if he was a bit of a bad boy. He didn’t go to her school, he actually worked at the pizza place near campus that a lot of the students used to study in. Surprisingly, he was not known for hitting on any of the co-ed patrons. Most of the other campus-fueled businesses had non-student clerks, baristas, and servers that were always trying to score with the college girls, often taking advantage of the most naïve of Freshmen. Not so for pizza boy, and this made the gals wonder why.

This made the girls want him. He became their Holy Grail.

Of the things that were known about him, there weren’t many. His name was James, and he was twenty-five. He had three visible tattoos, one of which was a girl’s name, Libbie, emblazoned on a decorative ribbon that snaked around the thorny stem of a rose. Libbie was not a girlfriend but the name of his grandmother.

In fact, as far as anyone knew, James did not have a girlfriend and never did for the two years he had been working at the parlor. He was not gay, but he was tolerant of homosexuals, as was evidenced by the kind and jovial way he denied the male secret agents sent on intelligence missions by interested girls. This meant his lack of activity was not necessarily a lack of interest, and in the best of imaginations, his reticence to cross the pizza counter on a bevy of flirts was actually due to the fact that he respected women enough to leave them to enjoy their pie in peace.

Not that plenty of girls didn’t flirt with James anyway. Many of them regularly did. Simple flirting wasn’t overtly reciprocated, however, more like kindly tolerated. Some girls found this frustrating and took this as a reason to doubt their own powers of attraction, while others enjoyed the safe zone of being able to play without having to worry about consequences. Only the bravest of ladies would get an actual rejection, brought on by their willingness to extend the flirt to a concrete offer and/or request. James had never joined any of them for dinner, a movie, or even coffee.

That is, not until Parker.

To this day, Parker is still unable to explain exactly how she caught James’ attention. Her best guess is that the same effect he had on women backfired when applied to him. Hearing all the stories about the pretty pizza boy, she decided that she wasn’t going to play that game. When she saw him, she thought he was definitely cute. The gelled hair swooping down in his face like a wave while exploding into spikes on one side was kind of cool, and he had remarkable grey eyes, but the pierced lip and the ripped rock shirts didn’t really speak to her. Why chase her tail for a boy who was only mildly attractive?

There was quite possibly an audible gasp when James handed her a piece of pizza and said, “I added some fresh garlic to the slice just for you. No charge.”

Parker wrinkled her nose, already smelling the cloves in the distance between the counter and her face. “My roommate is going to love you for this,” she said, before remembering to be polite and say “Thanks.”

She didn’t think anything of it. It was just a couple of pieces of chopped garlic. (And what was it with her boys and garlic?) Parker took the pizza and turned to go to her table. It was then that she realized that the room had grown relatively quiet, and that most of the girls—who outnumbered the men here at 2 to 1—had turned their eyes on her. She never felt so conspicuous sitting down to eat a slice.

Parker had barely finished her snack when James was bussing her table. Only, instead of taking her dirty plate and leaving, he sat down in the empty chair next to her. He examined the open book she had in front of her. “Is that English?” he asked, perplexed.

“Yes, it’s Chaucer. So it’s an old style of English.”

“Oh.” He stared at it a few seconds more, wondering how that could be, then asked, “Did you like the garlic?”

She huffed a blast of breath in his direction. “What do you think?”

James laughed and said, “Ah, sweet roses,” and smiled at her. Parker found it cute, and thus now James was cute, and so when he asked if she had time to hang out until the pizza parlor closed and would consider going and having a drink with him, Parker said yes.

It was a short step into campus legend, and Parker took it.

They dated for a couple of weeks, and it was nice—though in college time, a couple of weeks isn’t very much, with their time together having to be scheduled around her classes, studying, and his work. Still, she was enjoying his company. They mainly had coffee or drinks together and spent a lot of time talking. Not surprisingly, James was into fairly avant-garde things, and so Parker was glimpsing an alternative lifestyle she had not really been privy to. He told her about cut-up writers like Bryon Gysin and even took her out to see what he called an “ambient turntablist.” The show was in a smoky little club in the next ‘burb over, and the DJ spun hip hop mixed with electronic and industrial, more head drilling than booty shaking. Parker wasn’t in love or anything, but spending time with James was better than aimless nights by herself with nothing to do. Plus, when he kissed her, she could feel it way down in her stomach, like a hand was cradling her abdomen just under her belly button. It made her tingle with warmth.

Thus, it was all the more shocking when the other shoe dropped, and it landed squarely on her heart, pushed down with the force of a kick.

“I don’t think we can keep seeing each other anymore,” James said during a Sunday night dinner.

They were at a vegetarian café. He was having an oatey-looking Garden Burger, she was having a Caesar salad. They had sex for the first time on Friday night, and it had left Parker feeling like there was an emptiness inside of her, a feeling that had persisted through most of Saturday and was gone by Sunday. It wasn’t a metaphorical feeling, either, but like someone had scooped out a rabbit’s den in her gut. Now, hearing James say what he said, it felt like the rabbit had come home and was kicking and stretching out his spot before settling down to stay.

“You think? Why do you think that?”

“It’s complicated. I’ve got issues.”

“That’s a rather blunt way to be self-aware.”

“I never should have gotten involved with you,” James said. “It wasn’t fair. I know I have trouble getting close.”

Despite not really caring one way or another about the relationship up until that moment, Parker cared now. The timing of it made her suspicious. “So you waited until you laid me to bounce me? If anyone should be getting dumped after Friday, it’s you.”

“Don’t be mean. It’s not like that.”

“Then how is it? I really want to know.”

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In case you missed it, last week I got to speak with Jamie S. Rich about his novel Bobby Pins and Mary Janes, It Girl and the Atomics, digital piracy and other good stuff as well. Check out the interview here.

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