About This – Part 1
About This – Part 1, is the first in a series of “Movie Novellas” brought to you by veteran filmmaker Lawrence Bridges. This new kind of reading experience, serialized in short chapters, was created specifically for the Kindle. The About This series captures in words the type of nuanced observations we see in our favorite films: touching and emotionally complex moments between characters, witty and memorable dialogue, sex, violent gripping situations, humor, diversion, cleverness, musical departures, suspense, mystery, general excitement and cliff hangers at the end of each chapter enticing you to read more. Bridges’ simple and easy to read style puts your mind in place of an observant lens… all you need to bring is your imagination.
Only weeks after arriving in Los Angeles from a small town in the Midwest, aspiring singer and harpist JEANETTE MAY takes a temp job as a receptionist for failed entrepreneur, JOHN MOORE, at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California. Jeanette came to Los Angeles to pursue a career in indie music, and to escape her unhappy small town past: a violent stepbrother, her father’s death, her mother’s illness and death soon after, a listless boyfriend, and a series of hopeless jobs. She struggles to keep her dream alive by playing small clubs in Los Angeles. She plays against the pain of these memories, trying to defeat them with sheer defiance and force of will, but will audiences take her seriously? Does anyone care about a thin girl from Pawnee, Illinois, who plays a harp and sings with a freaky novelty voice: the voice of a young child? During the first hour of her first day on the job, Jeanette almost gets fired. She despairs of her confinement in the bland technical world of JPL. She feels starved for inspiration. She feels she will never overcome the difficulties in her past and now, having traveled all this way for her dream, she questions her decision to leave home. Little does she know circumstances surrounding John Moore’s involvement with a private space probe funded by Islamist separatists will change her life and music career forever.
Parts 2 and 3 are also available for download from Smashwords and the Kindle Store.
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