Scene Nine Block Island The fast boat was launched out the side ship kind of like a rubber pontoon slip and slide out a hatch into the brine so the submarine could get clear. Hard rains were coming … Continue reading That Night, Scene 9.
Scene Seven Mehanata The yellow cabs fly by on Tuesday night. You could cook things on the sidewalk, that’s how vile and hot the concrete jungle is this summer. For the nine to thirteen million rats in their various races, this city never fucking sleeps. Its go, go, go, zoom, zoom rush! Slaves and serfs to the trains for service. It’s all an illusion its fun here with no currency. It’s a filthy place except at the center. Getting in early with red eyes and leaving late. Back on the cattle cars. The masters dangling enough to … Continue reading That Night, Scene 7.
Scene 6 Scene Six The Atlantic Ocean After everyone and their family was safely disembarked in Port of Spain, conditions became a little looser. They were allowed to leave the two conjoined rooms and walk about the … Continue reading That Night, Scene 6
{{{“That Night” is the first Act of Fire on the Mountain. This is Scene 5. }}} In Scene 5 we take a closer look into the Mehanata Social Club. Scene 5 Scene Five Mehanata The lights are kept dim no matter … Continue reading That Night, Scene 5
{{{“That Night” is the first Act of Fire on the Mountain. This is Scene 4. In the previous scenes we were introduced to three groups of overlapping characters. A tavern full of immigrants, criminals and subversives. A band of revolutionaries … Continue reading That Night, Scene 4
Scene Three Upper West Side They look out over privilege itself. The rooftop deck on the 17th story of the Trickovitch Family Penthouse looks North and West over the Hudson River, the Upper East Side, and also … Continue reading That Night, Scene 3
Scene Two Off the coast of Nicaragua Far below the waves of the black blue Caribbean, a vast underwater leviathan of a craft named the “Black Mermaid” hulks its way gradually toward the surface. The vessel is forty miles off the Eastern coast of Nicaragua, sloshing and bashing the water. It cascades aggressively. All of these things happen in depths of the sea and black of the night as its crew makes way toward “New Shoreham”; a tiny settlement on Block Island, a rebel enclave off the state of Rhode Island in the United States … Continue reading That Night, Scene 2
Scene 1 Scene One New York City Scene One New York City Blast the damn heat, for my brow drips. For in New York it gets so hot in the late of August, a swelter box, most people of … Continue reading That Night, Scene 1
