The Serpent Curse - Kiah Meets Critter
**An excerpt of my screenplay _The Serpent Curse_, essentially the teaser clip if it ever gets made.** EXT. AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK - DAWN Kiah's pupils shrink into focus as a sudden RUSTLE from the brush pulls her awake. She watches in snake vision,...
The Serpent Curse - Chapter 1
Maybe another death adder went around just eating the legs, leaving the rest for me. suddenly, a third death adder, female and somewhat older (mum), passes through. spotting them, she stops. mum: hunting's going well, i suppose?
The Serpent Curse - Chapter 3
In an instant, she springs forward ahead of critter, and wrestles down another death adder. kiah: leave my critter alone! he's my prey. death adder: whatever. i'm not that desperate. the death adder gets up, and heads back into the brush.
The Serpent Curse - Chapter 5
Hunter: death adder. habibah: death adders. with that, habibah lifts the pungi to her mouth and starts to play the charmer tune from the paper. kiah flinches, but looking down and seeing no dart, she looks back up at habibah, confused.
The Serpent Curse - Chapter 2
(beat) oh, by the way, death adders don't hear voices. we're deaf adders. we feel the vibrations through the ground. critter: so wait, the majestic voice is a metaphor...
The Serpent Curse - Chapter 8
Cherubim: a final warning, kiah of the death adders. if further you eat from the fruit of the tree, you will be cursed twice-fold, even beyond your own kind.
The Serpent Curse - Chapter 7
Cobras: death adder you say. if this calling is true, then why for so long must we have waited, from so far must you have traveled, for serpent to be reconciled with good?
The Serpent Curse - Prologue
Kiah the common death adder springs out at her prey! ext. prologue tales ghost across the screen, the stories throughout the ages, getting older and older, narrators of all cultures telling tales of the dark deeds of snakes.
The Serpent Curse - Chapter 10
death adder burrow - day kiah lies in her hollow quietly. suddenly, there is the sound of slithering and kiah looks up. birrani enters, carrying a dead rat in his mouth. birrani: here kiah, i brought you something.
Celebration of a Lifetime (Various TF/TGs)
Leanan nodded, reaching into her coat and, with the swiftness of a death adder her hands whipped out and clipped something around my neck. curious fingers reached up, feeling familiar nylon...a collar? "why did you just clip a collar to me?"