β Scribed by Darryl PonicsΓ‘n
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
From the author of The Last Detail and Last Flag Flying, a surreal comic novel in the tradition of Joseph Heller about movies, small town politics, and a place between heaven and hell.
Following a rewrite job in New York City, veteran screenwriter D. K. KecskemΓ©ti finds himself not in his home in the Hollywood Hills but in an unfamiliar house in a strange town, where he's greeted by an obsequious houseman who informs that his wife, Hope, is gone. The note she left reveals that she's on a retreat to deal with a personal crisis of which DK was unaware.
Confused and disoriented, unable to sleep, he wanders the deserted streets. He comes upon three cops, guns drawn, at the open doorway of a residence. When the doorway fills with a blinding light, they open fire. The victim falls right next to DK. She is a beautiful black woman, who happens to be naked . . . and an angel. She folds her wings as she utters her last words: "Hope is alive."
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