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Episode 6

Esme Raji Codell

 Affonso Gonçalves is a film editor, whose films include May-December, The Lost Daughter, Carol, Keep the Lights On, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Winter’s Bone, True Detective, Season One, and a little film called Night Catches Us. Most recently, he edited I’m Not Here, which won this year’s Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, the first for a Brazilian film.  

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  Using the prompt below, write, create or compose from the back of your neck for 11 minutes. Then send in your work as a document or a sound file. I'd love to feature it.

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Last year, the body of a former Brazilian president was laid to rest in cemetery in Greenland. Known as Praxis the Charitable, he led Brazil into much turmoil over his five years. He stole from his country, mistreated his people, and just prior to leaving office, staged an unsuccessful coup to seize power. He was tried and convicted and just before sentencing, he died. 


Sensing an opportunity, his family offered his remains to Greenland. Burying him there would demonstrate a remorse that he never displayed while he was alive. Greenland would enjoy the opportunity of new visitors. A deal was reached. His body was flown to Nuuk and transported to a cemetery outside Upernavik. In a ceremony attended by seven Greenlanders, a prayer was read, then his casket was lowered into a one and half feet hole, the required depth in Greenland. Shovels of permafrost dropped atop his casket.

When the burial mound was completed, a white wooden cross was hammered into his plot instead of a headstone, which cracked during the long winters. 


The plot was all but forgotten until a few hours ago. In the early morning, under the cover of twilight, the permafrost shifted. One finger emerged, then a hand. Then an arm, and a shoulder. Before long, a whole body emerged. 


The being stood up and gazed up at the sky with a million stars. Then he turned his attention to the apartment building across the street and the lone home to the West. Soft lights from the buildings invited him inside. He was unable to speak. His body was cold. But he imagined himself with a lot of hot tea and a shot of alcohol, he would be able to speak his first words and be alive again. 


With this president’s rebirth complete, you are to come up with the next scene --- with one added complication. You are to show where he went, whom he met, and what he said when he finally warmed up, using Casablanca as your template.


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