Can't sleep, so what the hell I said I would post some excerpts from my screenplays so here is my first. This is from something I wrote about three years ago called Black Crystal.

This epic follows the struggles of Dallas Black in his attempt to suppress the daemons that have plagued him since his internment in a prisoner of war camp by the new regime known as Horseman. The world is full of strife and chaos and it's future is in the hands of the Black Family.

Dallas, in his early twenties struggles to find his corner of the world that he can say is his.

EXT. POPS DELIVERS THE EULOGY - NIGHT

Pops lights a torch and steps towards the alter

POPS
Transcend my beloved and leave your human bonds.May your trip up the stairway to the heavens be as graceful as you were in life. And now great spirit, lift this finest of your creations onto your back and whisk her too her rightful place realm of white lights.

Pops tilts his torch and sets the alter on fire

INT. DALLAS GIVES HIS PARTING WORDS - NIGHT

Cheyanne finishes her parting words, Dallas begins his

CHEYANNE
...Goodbye dearest mother, may peace be with you.Thank you

DALLAS
These orchids and roses remind me how fragile life can be, even the most strong and resilient flowers in the garden of Eden could only last six days and nights in the hands of death.

POPS
She was wife, sister, aunt, grandmother, cousin, in-law to us.To many more a good friend.We were all touched in many different ways by her generosity, love, kindness, unselfishness and purity.Lets all pray and help burn Moms legacy into the pages of the book of eternity

The circle one by one begins to disperse

INT. DALLAS GIVES HIS LAST THOUGHTS - NIGHT

The fire begins to dye.Dallas is the last person to leave the circle.He removes a black piece of cloth from his pocket and places it into the embers and watches it burn.He then places a spring of ivy, intertwined with a piece of barbed wire into the ashes.

DALLAS
(Whispering)
Life doesn't just end when you die, your life force is eternal as the Phoenix.Like the great indistinguishable bird born of fire, so too will the spirit of Mom live on in the souls of her charges.

Dallas walks away leaving one flame to fight to remain lit

FADE OUT:

Later,
The Eternal Kenaz,
Kendall