• A little black boy, about 10-11 years old with curly hair is nervously talking to a drug dealer. He's asking him about "RED". The dealer is explaining its the strongest high you can get. The boy is interupting and asking anxiously about the effects on strength and power.

    The dealer assures him he will be unstoppable on RED.
    The boy purchases the drug, and the dealer explains you drink the red liquid and then rub between your big toe and the next toe and the effects are almost immediate. The dealer then turns and runs from the alley with the wad of money.

    The boy goes home, he looks very dettermined. He climbs the stairs to his room and after a few deep breaths drinks the liquid, rubs between his toes, and slowly stands as we watch his eyes grow wide, pupils dialate and he stands up fully, squares his shoulders and leaves his room jumping without hesitation from the window on the second story.

    He walks up to a cab on a residential street. A russian cab driver in his late 50s with salt and pepper hair is in the front, and a 19 year old black boy with medium length dreads is in the back on the left of the cab driver. The boy smashes in the window of the cab driver, who is paralyzed with fear, and the he hits the driver hard in the face knocking him unconcious and giving him a bloody mouth.

    The 19 year old in the back of the cab says the boys name in shock.
    "Sammy!"
    "Sam," he corrects himself remembering the boy doesn't like to be called Sammy. Sam circles the car in long strides, shoulders hunched eyes focussed on the youth in the back of the cab. He busts out the drivers side passenger window with his fist. Leaps on top of the car. The youth inside shakes with fear looking up at the roof and around the car frantically trying to spot the boy. Sam jumps down on the opposite side of the car, busts out the front passenger window and the back.
    "Sam, wait!" The youth shouts. Sam reaches in and grabs him by the shirt at the throat and pulls him out of the car with one arm. The 10 year old yanks him to his knees so he is looking down on him. "Your going to help me with a little project Calvin," Sam growls menacingly. Calvin, shaking, slowly nods.



    scenes cuts to a news reporter.
    (while she speaks scenes of violence, robberies, drug deals, hellicopters, arrests, etc... fill the screen.)
    Instances of the new drug Red is becoming a major problem in the innercity, but the drug is so diffcult to manufacture, and the effects are so extreme that it is only available in very small quantities. Brazen robberies deaths and gang wars have resulted from the violent drug said to increase strength up to 100 times with a strong dose, and in many first time users causing massive heart failure. Many people have died attempting to use the drug, which strongly promotes the absence of fear and inhibition. Users have a heightened sense of sight and smell, and are able to sense from great distances people they know, or other people using the drug. Red was originally produced by the Japanese government to produce super soldiers, however the testing proved the drug to be highly unpredictable and too dangerous to use on humans. One of the scientists involved in the testing stole a copy of the instructions for making the drug and sold them to a buyer who has yet to be identified. Police have teamed with the FBI and CDC to stop this threat and the manufacturing of this highly dangerous and volitile drug.

    (short story end)


    A little extra info on Sam and Calvin.
    These characters are caught up in a struggle in thier neighborhood which has caused harm to come to someone Sam cares for.

    The person who was hurt was hurt by someone on RED.

    Sam is compelled by grief and anger to take revenge on the attacker.

    Calvin is somehow connected to the assisting of the attacker to obtain the drug, and so Sam finds him first, and enlists his help to locate his target.

    Pretty wild huh!
    My dreams get all crazy sometimes. smile Let me know what you think.

    Author: Katherine Pratt