29/05/2021
SNACKS
Episode One
By Wych Hazle
Paranormal/Urban Drama
“Infectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building by their own efforts, the things they require. Whenever they find it possible to take advantage of the constructive labors of others, this is the path of least resistance.”
Rats, Lice and History, Hans Zinsser (1935)
A farmer in Northern California decides not to report the landing of three strange soil-filled meteors on his property. After touching one, every cell in his body becomes consumed and reproduced by an ever growing body of intelligent and nearly indestructible parasites of less than microscopic size. Through a chain of the most bizarre characters, and situations, ranging from ‘ghetto’ to ‘bougie’ they make their way to the only woman on earth immune to them.
Unfortunately, she is no angel.
MARQUEESHA is a gorgeous, shapely, bi-racial girl from Manhattan who takes quiet pride in being a s*x addict, an ‘escort’ of sorts, and a v***n. She was born to a mother and father quite unlike her, and supernaturally gifted in the arts of seduction and s*xual pleasure. In her strange and deceptive pursuit of pleasure and security she collects and throws away many wealthy concubines, making one LORD JAY, a “thugged out”, crack dealing clan ringleader from The Bronx, her main squeeze. This ends up being a bad move for her. Being insatiable, beautiful and deceptive she underestimates his intelligence and resourcefulness because of his occupation and place of origin. He is much smarter and much stronger than she thinks, but it matters not.
MARQUEESHA catches” the disease” from a rich white male “associate” of hers named Jacob, a soil scientist, and unconsciously infects LORD JAY. At the time she infects him during their last romp, she is unaware that he is on to her cheating ways and lies and has been for some time. He has even spotted her in department stores kissing and holding hands with some of her ‘tricks’, while in disguise.
She is dismissed, violently with hateful eyes and a gun to her forehead. She leaves in shock.
Here is where the party starts…
LORD JAY is attacked by a series of violent itching episodes immediately after her departure then dies a horrible death in a matter of hours, decomposing alive little by little in his shower.
His best friend and main partner in crime, EASY, finds him in a despicable state and kills him to put him out of his pain and misery, but not before hearing that it was MARQUEESHA that did it to him. After pulling himself together, EASY and a few of his boys hunt her down to avenge his boss. Being from the hood and far removed from what they first laugh off as “bulls**t science fiction”, they slowly and frightfully witness and discover a side of reality beyond their imaginations and social grasp that changes their lives forever..., the ones who make it out of the situation alive that is.
The seductress is still oblivious. Ignorance is bliss.
In Manhattan, MARQUEESHA brushes her shoulders off from the whole situation having already financially planned for such a moment. Being given ‘the boot’, that is. She always has a Plan B…, Plan Z even. H***y and mad, she comes across Jacob, who the parasites have decided to use as a “satellite”, that is, a trickster that can bring them good food. They love healthy flesh and undeveloped brains. The parasites are intrigued by MARQUEESHA because they cannot consume, or transform her flesh. They abandon his body for the versatility of hers.
They begin to suspect that her origins reach beyond earth. This information is kept from her. They calculate a date they will be able to take her flesh, observing how much of her ’life force’ she wastes engaging in all her hedonistic activities
A crack slowly begins to appear for them to crawl through.
After a while they begin to get into her mind and take her on a transforming journey through her own psyche and body. During this journey, which takes her into the bedrooms of some of the most unique men and women she has ever encountered, MARQUEESHA, ironically, discovers a more divine, spiritual side of herself. She begins to transform in an opposite direction of what was expected by the parasites.
Through this process she learns that they can be defeated, not with a vaccine, weapon, or physical force, but by learning to control herself with much labor, change, and “conscious” regeneration… This change tones her down taking her from the yelling city of New York to a quiet “New Age” town in New Mexico where she engages in one last battle with them. The hardest battle she ever has had to fight.
A battle for her soul.