Abyssal (first draft)
Act 1
Scene 10
The cafeteria, the sub pen
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Abyssal, Act 1 Scene 1
When I wrote that three-act treatment last August I didn’t have the slightest suspicion that we’d be living through something like we are right now by the time I returned to expand it. Then once we were under quarantine, I thought it would be horribly insensitive to revisit it. At this point, I’m not so sure about that. The pandemic element is ultimately ancillary to this story, and thinking about it I guess helps me turn some concepts over in my mind. How constructive that is will remain to be seen. This story has come to mean a lot to me, though, and I think it will evolve a lot now that I’m fiddling with it during a strange reflection of its own premise. Maybe I will, too.
I don’t have specific plans for anything with this, but I’m writing it while imagining it in a visual medium, for practice and variety. This first draft isn’t in any kind of standard format, just something that seems to make sense to me. I hope someone else somewhere gets something out of it.
Keenan Cross
Abyssal (first draft)
Act 1
Scene 1
The field
The Demihuman Chronicles 