* This is a fictionalized account of some shit that actually happened. All the names, locations, etc. have been changed to protect the innocent as well as the guilty. – JG *
INTERIOR – NEEDLE TRAX – DUSK
Heads and Punks are packed into Needle Trax, all pointed at Jim behind the counter. Guerrasio, Hoover, D-Man and Griffin are in the front row. Jim begins, his voice grave.
JIM
Now, I know you’ve all noticed that your
classmates have been dropping like flies
lately. There’s a temptation to think that
it’s all a coincidence, that somehow the
murders of Hannah Graeber...
Guerrasio winces.
JIM
(continues)...and the Janks family all just
coincidentally happened around the same
time as these last 3 suicides. But it’s not a
coincidence. There’s something going on.
Something that started in Snakeland a long
time ago.
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INTERIOR – RAND’S BEDROOM – NIGHT
Rand walks slowly to the window where the Snake is waiting.
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INTERIOR – NEEDLE TRAX – DUSK
GUERRASIO
(peevish) Aw, that’s bullshit. Snakeland’s
just a place we go to party. It’s not “Satanic”
or any of that other garbage.
JIM
No, it’s not Satanic, but that doesn’t mean
that it’s not evil. Does anyone here know
why Awl Grain closed up the grain elevators
back in 1974?
Everyone looks askance at each other. No takers.
JIM
Because at least two workers died in there,
also from supposedly “unrelated causes”.
Jim lets this sink in.
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INTERIOR – JEREMY JANKS’ BEDROOM – NIGHT
Jeremy Janks is sitting at the desk in his bedroom when his attention is aroused by a tapping at his window. It is the Snake.
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INTERIOR – NEEDLE TRAX – DUSK
JIM
Anyway, the whole Snakeland story begins
in the late 1960s...
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