Abstract Story

Hey guys, the past two days were relaxing for me and I got inspired to get more writing done. In the everyday quest to experience life to its fullest do we fill any closer to our true purpose? the voice that motivates us to want more? This short scene I'm about to post is me just toying with that idea. enjoy.

Its pitch black, and the screen starts to blink and a fuzzy point of view slowly starts to give way to an all encompassing white space. Our character has gain consciousness. now standing on a black platform that appears to be in an odd-shape. He stands around looking confused, he does a 360 scan area looking for anything in the distance and sees nothing, the space around him is unending. disturbed, a voice calls to him..."HELLO!?...no wait that's stupid...there's no one here, what is this place?" our character has a smile of relief and quickly responds "WHO-WHO SAID THAT!? I HEARD YOU AND I'M HERE TOO" the other voice replies "UH...UM...GOD?" Our character chuckles and gives us his name "NO...ha ha...I'm SPENCER" other voice pauses and starts snapping his fingers to himself as if he's remembering something that's dancing right on the edge of his thoughts. he does a quick pace and hesitantly says "YOU WOULDN'T HAPPEN TO BE SPENCER ANTHONY HUH?" (now our main character is known as Spencer) Spencer replies "UH YEAH...HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?" The voice finally reveals his identity "ITS ME VICTOR!? WE WENT TO SCHOOL TOGETHER, I KNEW I RECOGNIZED YOUR VOICE HA HA!" Spencer now excited that he's with someone familiar his voice loses its fear and responds "VIC!!! YES!!! WHERE ARE YOU BRO?" Victor looks around trying to make sense of the madness, smirks, shrugs his shoulders and says "I'M ON A WEIRD PLATFORM THAT SHAPED STRANGE....IT HAS ALL SORTS OF GAPS IN IT...WHERE ARE YOU? Spencer says "YEAH ME TOO, SINCE I CAN HEAR YOU, WE GOTTA BE WITHIN THE VICINITY OF EACH OTHER...LOOK LETS TRY AND FOLLOW EACH OTHER VOICES AND MEET...MAYBE WE CAN FIGURE THIS OUT" Victor listening starts shaking his head in a frantic agreement and says "YEAH OKAY". As both Spencer and Victor use their voices to find each other, they carefully move forward walking and jumping over the strange gaps in the platform. We get a bird's eye view shot of the two guys shown to be walking on opposite ends of the word "DESTINY" when Spencer and Victor finally comes face to face with each other Spencer now panting says "do you know how we got here?" END SCENE.

The Business Suit

Its been awhile since my last post I know. I am working so hard right now to change my lazy ways and get the ball rolling. As I learn more about myself one thing I am working to do is be more consistent, because that is the key to success in any medium. After reading a fellow artist and friend's blog the other day it inspired me to write up a short story that I have been thinking about but had not committed to paper. So dear reader bear with me as I will challenge myself and write this idea completely off the top of my head. Criticism is welcomed but within reason. I hope you enjoy. 6:00 a.m. Thursday. Inner city. sidewalks, alley ways, apartment buildings, one stop shops, and taxi's. The city and its teeming masses rush about their daily lives in the hopes of making it through another day. siren's blare about, crazy laughter from a bum calling out to pretty ladies can be heard, but that is not what makes this day special. A couple of blocks over from Clark and division there is an apartment complex. Inside one unsuspecting apartment room, on the walls newspaper clippings cover its base from top to bottom. Articles of a vigilante only know as "The Business Suit" paint a picture of an unidentified man who have saved people from various tragedies. "Business Suit Guy saves child from being run over", "Business Suit strikes again saves elderly from ATM mugging", "Business Suit guy finds gunned police officer radio's for help". The television pops on and its showing the local news. As the anchor goes on about its daily report, a young African-American male is seen moving about throughout the room. Picking up papers, feeding his cat, putting his lunch and folders into his briefcase. He fixes his tie one last time and goes to turn off the TV, right before the TV goes blank the last words heard are "woman hospitalized for rape". Out on the street he stops in a popular coffee shop for a quick pick-me-up. on his way to the train station a couple of feet ahead of him, he notices a red-eyed 6-foot burly man covered in dusty dreadlocks murmuring to himself. looking down to take a sip from his coffee, as his eyes come back up he sees the black high heel shoe of a woman entering the train station and the burly man following right behind her. The young picks up his pace and lightly jogs to the train station. The young man enters and sees no one. his eyes widen and his heart can be heard beating through his chest in a song of panic. he quickly scans the room and spots the same black high heel shoe and CTA bus card laying in the turnstile. In a moment hops over the turnstile and follows in pursuit. After running throughout the station and letting the worst thoughts of what has happened to this poor woman flood his mind, a soft but angry "shut-up bitch!" can be heard. following not the echo but the actual sound he sees the man on the underground platform . He has the woman pressed up against the wall, the woman has managed to scratch the face of her attacker using a bracelet she's wearing. The pain only seems to further invite the guy to force himself on her. The young man takes his briefcase and throws it with force shuriken style at the bum. The bum hit directly in the back of the head is caught off guard and drops to his knees. The young man rushes down and grabs the woman and yells "RUN!" The bum now in enraged gets up and focuses his blood shot eyes on the young man. looking at his blood-soaked hand from touching the back of his neck he belts out "WHO DA FUCK YOU 'POSED TA BE!?" The young man says nothing but get himself into a fighting stance. The bum laughs and says "you should've just called da po-po, but now i'mma have to eat yo little ass up!" The bum charges directly at the young man, just as he is about to tackle him, the man quickly side steps and delivers an astonishing hook kick to the back of the bum's head further damaging the area he struck with the briefcase. The bum throws a fit and punches a nearby wall and tries to charge again and as the young man readies himself again he trips on his briefcase and gives the bum the opportunity to strike. tackling him, both men fall to the floor. The bum tries to return the favor by repeated punches to the young man's face, but waste energy due to the young man's sturdy block, noticing the bum is tiring the young man lets go of his block and drills his face with lighting jabs, kicks him in the groin pushes him and throw his still warm coffee in his face. As the bum screams in agony the police are heard coming. The young woman who was attacked earlier is with them leading them down to where the bum attacked her. As the police close in the young man frantically gets up grabs his briefcase and runs down the platform. An officer spots him and yells for him to freeze, the young man keeps running. Another officer opens fire barely missing the young man and the officer who yelled freeze notices his attire and tells his fellow officer to stop. they give chase and pursue the young man. The train comes and they see him board the train at the last car. hoping on too they quickly make there way to the back, after a couple of stops they notice him dart out onto state street and they quickly follow as they chase him through the train station and down the stairs. they gain on him and just as they are about to catch him as he goes down the stairs and onto state street, they turn the corner only to lose him amidst the sea of professionals who grace the downtown area in the same attire everyday trying to make a living. Both breathing heavily, the officer who opened fire asks "why were we chasing him, the woman said he stopped the bum from attacking her?" The Officer only replies "Because I think we just had our first encounter with The Business Suit Guy" The other officer looks over shockingly and they walk back onto to the platform radioing to the team their location. THE END.