SKYBOYS – SIDES FOR ‘GRANDMA’

©2009 Angus Kittler Reid

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INT. GRANDMA’S KITCHEN – DAY

A page-a-day wall calendar reads ‘Thursday, July 12th’. The kitchen table is set for three, with soup bowls.

GRANDMA

Do you boys like soup? It’s fish chowder.

Wert unhappily lifts his spoon in the bowl of yellow-white ‘soup’. A cooked crab claw, still in the shell, briefly surfaces in his spoon, then sinks below the surface.

WERT

I’m… not really hungry.

GRANDMA

Oh, okay… I’ll put it away and we can have it for supper.

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INT. KITCHEN – DAY

Grandma is cooking something awful. The boys’ voices are heard approaching.

JAMEY

We’ll tell Grandma about it.

WERT

We should take a picture of it to show her!

JAMEY

Okay! We will.

They enter the kitchen in a flush of excitement.

WERT

We found a giant rocket!

Grandma receives this information, but it seems to just bounce off her brain.

JAMEY

It’s like, a missile or something. Maybe it’s a weather rocket.

WERT

It’s about 80 feet tall!

JAMEY

N-No, it’s not…

Very little of this seems to reach Grandma’s understanding.

GRANDMA

Oh, my goodness.

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The cuckoo pops out and sings the hour. Jamey is still on the couch with his book. Wert is not around. Grandma walks in, sees Jamey, and exclaims in surprise:

GRANDMA

Oh! James. Did you just get here, dear?

JAMEY

We came yesterday, Grandma.

GRANDMA

Oh, my goodness. Is your brother here?

JAMEY

He’s around here somewhere.

GRANDMA

Well I’ll make you boys some lunch.

She toddles off.

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INT. KITCHEN – DAY

Jamey is sitting alone at the table, just finishing his sandwich. There’s a sandwich sitting waiting for Wert.

GRANDMA (O.S.)

Would you bring that to your brother, dear?

Jamey picks up the plate and goes to the door of the next room. Wert isn’t in there. He goes to the base of the stairs and calls up.

JAMEY

Wert?

No answer.