Drey's friend Brian Muntis is working on a screenplay about Sparkleton. He's going to try to apply to movie school with it. He's lent it to Drey to read and that is why it's in the room. This is going to be drawn text, like the diary and newspaper, but on 8 1/2 x 11 (or satisfyingly slightly larger) white paper. Here is an excerpt, 1st draft.
(I may not have mentioned here.. Beam is a nearby town, and is fictional but not unreal the way Sparkleton is. Beam is just like any real town and the Bundt County Bus Service runs between the two)
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Bundt County Bus Service. Return trip from Beam. Sparkleton passengers are on the way back from errands or the New Supermarket. Everyone is bundled in winter coats, most of them wool and plaid. DREY FANK has visited the Beam Library and borrowed several do-it-yourself taxidermy books, because he still struggles with asking questions of other people. As the bus turns onto Route 918, DANA GRINT and ELISE FRAINE are in conversation about various acquaintances in Beam.
CUE MUSIC - Beach Boys I KNOW THERE'S AN ANSWER As the passengers sing through the song.
DANA
I know so many people there who think they can do it alone
ELISE
Yes. They isolate their heads and stay in their safety zones.
DANA considers this, and then leans forward and asks Elise:
DANA
Now what can you tell them? And what can you say that won't make them defensive?
Here WARREN FLAVEY, with a knowing look at his fellow passengers, chimes in.
WARREN
I know there's an answer, I know now, but I had to find it by myself!
The passengers nod their heads in agreement. RAY MINER is moved to stand as he sings.
RAY
They come on like they're peaceful, but inside they're so uptight!
As RAY delivers this line, the bus jolts forward and RAY tumbles into the arms of his fellow passengers, who have held them out in order to catch him. Everyone smiles.
ELISE (shaking her head)
They trip through their day and waste all their thoughts at night.
The bus has turned down Wider Road and is about to take a left onto Sparklehampton Court. DREY FANK gets up from his seat where he has been watching, wordless. He steadies himself and when the bus pulls up in front of SPARKLEHAMPTON MANOR, he descends into the snow, turning back to see the passengers continue singing.
RAY
Now how can I come on, and tell them the way that they live could be better?
WARREN (nodding and smiling)
I know there's an answer. I know now but I had to find it by myself.
The bus door has closed and DREY watches the bus roll away, swaying with the passengers on the chorus. He shrugs his shoulders and enters the rest home for his bi-weekly volunteer visit.