"SNAKELAND MUST BE DESTROYED!": SCENE TWENTY-FOUR

* 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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