Lesson One: a short story
By S.S. Wilson
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S.S. Wilson's first novel Tucker's Monster is the Winner of the 2011 Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book - Fiction, presented at the 23rd annual Benjamin Franklin Awards.
S.S. Wilson, screenwriter of such films as Tremors and Short Circuit has just finished his first novel Tucker's Monster after 30 years. "It really was 30 years in the making," jokes the author. After being "side-tracked" by success in screenwriting and directing, Wilson returned to a book he began over three decades ago and is now writing his second novel Fraidy Cats.
S.S. WILSON has always been a storyteller with a love of fantasy. His high school science project was an animated dinosaur that demonstrated the concept of persistence of vision, the "flaw" in human optics which makes movie watching possible.
As a teenager, Wilson made backyard stop-motion animation "epics" with 8mm film and later went on to study film and television at Pennsylvania State University and the USC graduate film program, where he met writing partner Brent Maddock. He and Maddock landed early jobs writing material for animation giants Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng's television specials featuring the Road Runner and Daffy Duck.
Wilson also wrote a book on special effects stop-motion animation, PUPPETS AND PEOPLE.
S.S. Wilson
S.S. Wilson's first novel Tucker's Monster is the Winner of the 2011 Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book - Fiction, presented at the 23rd annual Benjamin Franklin Awards. S.S. Wilson, screenwriter of such films as Tremors and Short Circuit has just finished his first novel Tucker's Monster after 30 years. "It really was 30 years in the making," jokes the author. After being "side-tracked" by success in screenwriting and directing, Wilson returned to a book he began over three decades ago and is now writing his second novel Fraidy Cats. S.S. WILSON has always been a storyteller with a love of fantasy. His high school science project was an animated dinosaur that demonstrated the concept of persistence of vision, the "flaw" in human optics which makes movie watching possible. As a teenager, Wilson made backyard stop-motion animation "epics" with 8mm film and later went on to study film and television at Pennsylvania State University and the USC graduate film program, where he met writing partner Brent Maddock. He and Maddock landed early jobs writing material for animation giants Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng's television specials featuring the Road Runner and Daffy Duck. Wilson also wrote a book on special effects stop-motion animation, PUPPETS AND PEOPLE. For more information www.arealdealproductions.com Print this
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Lesson One
by S. S. Wilson
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The odd thing was, he was quite sure he was dead. It was odd because he was still in his body, breathing, refreshed and relaxed. He felt a bracing breeze on his face and hands, smelled salt in the air, heard the crash of waves, and was standing — wait, where was this?
He looked around. He was on a rocky coastline. No buildings visible. The day was cloudy, but not really gloomy, for everything was tinged with energy and magnificence. Thundering surf misted black boulders that rose from the blue-grey sea and marched gracefully up to steep sand banks tufted with grass that glowed bright green even in the diffuse light. It all reminded him of Ireland. God, Ireland had been beautiful.
From out of nowhere an impossibly huge shadow fell across him. Something was hurtling toward him from above. Before he could even look up, he was slammed to the ground by the unseen thing’s infinite weight. And crushed. Crushed so utterly! Unthinkable pain shrieked from every part of his body as he was ground into the rocks. His flesh split and smeared, his bones snapped in a thousand places. As his skull distended and cracked, he smelled leather, wet leather. He was dying! Dying!
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The odd thing was, he was quite sure he was dead. It was odd because he was still in his body, breathing, refreshed and relaxed. He felt a bracing breeze on his face and hands, smelled salt in the air, heard the crash of waves, and was standing —
He flinched violently, clammy sweat bursting from his pores. His heart pounded in terror as he scanned the turbulent gray sky.
But nothing happened. And that allowed him to realize something. When he had flinched, it should have sent a knife of pain through his severely arthritic back. Yet he’d felt nothing.
He gingerly raised his elbows to shoulder height and twisted tentatively from side to side. No pain! It was as inexplicable as the ghastly violence he’d just endured.
Welcome.
He flinched again, this time at the sound