The God Child

By Dawn Greenfield Ireland

A government alert pings during an emergency C-section on Ruth Tovar Lyons. She knows she’s dying. Ruth begs the doctor to contact her sister Lily in New Mexico and not let the government take the baby.

Colonel Bastrop doesn’t think any special skills will show up for a couple of years.

Steve Plant, a former GI (30s), practices Qi Gong at a Myanmar monastery with a blind Tibetan master, along with Da-wa Wangdu (30s), Steve’s sidekick. Steve finds no peace in the session and does the movements as payment for his sins.

Josh Corlander, scar-faced former military from Colonel Bastrop’s unit, sits in a bunker in Colorado. He watches activity surrounding his former commander.

One month later in the neonatal ICU, strange things begin to happen. Nurse Lucy, with a large strawberry mark on her face and arm, picks Deidre up. The baby grabs Lucy’s finger. There is a soft glow no one notices. Nurse Minnie gasps. Lucy’s strawberry marks are gone.

Colonel Bastrop sends in Homeland Security and the FBI. They take the baby, confiscate all cell phones, scrub the hospital files. Lily Tovar is hidden amid the crowd outside the NICU window.

7 years later in a house in the woods, Susanne and Gordon, scientists who are responsible for Deidre’s care, record sessions with her about the universe, life, and death. Since her fourth birthday, no one has been able to physically touch her without getting shocked, or killed.

Josh sends his commandos to bring Deidre in. Susanne is killed. Deidre escapes to the forest, and Gordon is captured.

Steve and Da-wa are apprehended at the airport. Bastrop tells Steve to find the girl and bring her back. Steve and Da-wa meet Lily. She accompanies them.

They find Deidre in the woods with bears, wolves, a cougar, and a fox. Deidre brings Susanne back from the dead. They go to Colorado to rescue Gordon.

The government realizes there isn’t a fortress or bunker that could hold Deidre against her will. One thought from her could annihilate all life on the planet. And she’s only seven years old.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dawn Greenfield Ireland - Artistic Origins
• Release date: Jan 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9781940385549

Dawn Greenfield Ireland

Dawn Greenfield Ireland is the author of several award-winning novels, nonfiction books, and screenplays. To date she has 21 published books that consists of four series (cozy mystery, YA science fiction/fantasy, adult shape-shifter, and dystopian), sci-fi romance adventure, and nonfiction work, which includes online courses. See also my adult shapeshifter books (Bonded) under the name of DG Ireland.

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This story was born June 9, 2006. I worked on it, then rested it. I picked it up again March 1, 2010. I filed for a copyright on July 4, 2019.

The cover for this script to book format was created by JewelDSign on Fiverr.com. Tell her I sent you!

I entered the screenplay version of The God Child to the Wiki: The World’s Fastest Screenplay Contest! I was very happy to be acknowledged with an Honorable Mention June 10, 2021.

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THE GOD CHILD

SCREENPLAY IN BOOK FORMAT

DAWN GREENFIELD IRELAND

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CONTENTS

Books by Dawn Greenfield Ireland

Screenplays to Book Format

Acknowledgments

Reading a Screenplay

The God Child Screenplay

About the Author

About Screenplays…

This is one of my screenplays that I have adapted into book format. The number of pages from script to book format changed due to the formatting characteristics of the program to create eBooks and paperbacks.

In case you are not familiar with the elements of a script, I’ll try to help you out so you enjoy reading these pages.

INT. means any interior scene, such as a room, building, barn, etc.

EXT. means any exterior scene, such as outside on the grass, outside of the car, house — you get it, right?

When a character is introduced the first time, their name appears in all capital letters. After that, the name is displayed as normal. Each character action is in a separate paragraph.

Character dialog in a screenplay is tricky in this format. The character name is in the center of the page, then the dialogue is inset at the left margin.

I’ve done my best with the formatting, but it isn’t perfect. You will notice that the dialogue is left/inset, but there’s a gap between the name of the character and the words they speak. Gaaa!

If you have questions, suggestions, tips, send me an email: [e-mail]

The God Child is like The Green Mile meets The Golden Child

FADE IN:

EXT. HOSPITAL - DAY SUPER: June 6

Torrential rain falls. Lightning flashes.

INT. HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM - EXAM ROOM #4 - DAY

RUTH TOVAR LYONS, thirty, a dark-haired beauty, 7-1/2 months pregnant, screams in agony during an emergency exam.

GUS LYONS, mid-thirties is by her side, extremely stressed. DOCTOR SOULE' and MEDICAL STAFF are in attendance.

GUS

What caused this? Will the baby survive?

DOCTOR SOULE'

Placental abruption is rare. We're going to have to perform a C-section. The baby is six weeks early, but we have an excellent neonatal facility.

Ruth grasps the doctor's hand.

RUTH

Save the baby! Gus implores the doctor.

GUS

Save my wife. If you have to make a choice, please save her. We can adopt.

EXT. HOSPITAL WAITING ROOM - DAY

The Attendant shows Gus to a waiting area.

ATTENDANT

Everything will be okay, Mr. Lyons. Try to relax. Doctor Soule' will come talk to you when the surgery is over.

GUS

Save her! She's my life.

The Attendant hurries away. Gus collapses in a chair.

INT. HOSPITAL DELIVERY ROOM - DAY

Dr. Soule' performs the C-Section.

A monitor off to the side flashes an alert. A NURSE notices the alert.

NURSE

Dr. Soule', there's a government alert on this screen about Mrs. Lyons.

DOCTOR SOULE'

Read it to me.

NURSE

National security alert. Ruth Tovar Lyons. They give her social security number.

The Nurse checks paperwork.

NURSE

It's her social.

The Nurse reads out loud from the screen.

NURSE

Any doctor who delivers a child born to Ruth Tovar Lyons is required to preserve the umbilical cord and blood samples of mother and child. Contact 1-800-800-8000 for further instructions.

DOCTOR SOULE'

There must be some mistake, but you'd better print it