Scene#19

Petra wore a short, light blue skirt and a low-cut, tight navy top. She walked up the ramp setting firmly one foot directly in front of the other as she was taught at modelling. Leslie was a little further behind her and was watching fascinated with and impish grin and whistling appreciatively. Petra turned: "What?" to which Leslie grinned broadly and said: "Your walk imitates quite well the waddle of a chubby duck but your sweet ass wriggles most deliciously". Petra stepped forward and with nary a back swing, hit Leslie over the face with an open palm that sent Leslie's glasses in a high arch onto the dirt. Leslie's face turned red and distorted with fury ... hand went into the pocket.

The director shouted: "Cut! Thass a keeper. Print it!" and then, looking at the script, in a hysterical outburst: "Come on people, set up nineteen ... Petra lay down on the ground, sweetness! Prop, makeup, where is my fake blood? Where are my cops? Scramble, scramble!"

Saint Josaphat

Saint Josaphat was kind and wise ... but he was born and named Faddei in Hradyzk, Poltava Oblast where the river Dnieper got so wide. He never knew his father and his mother was a whore so, from early on, he had to fend for himself and he grew up a mean beast and he was strong as an ox, could run like a deer and swim like a fish and if he'd had an illness (he hadn't) and needed a doctor (he didn't), it would have been surely a veterinarian and he carried very large and very sharp knifes and would rob and sometimes kill people in the forest on the way to or from market and put his gold and silver coins and jewellery under an old walnut tree in the neighbour's backyard. One evening he lay in wait and saw an old man with a bag on his back coming. Faddei jumped up and shouted "Your money or your life!" and he old man stopped and said "I am Brother Timofei from Hadiach monastery and carry money for a new church bell for St. Salvey, two villages over where people are poor and unhappy and the only time of hope and joy is at mass listening to the life of Saints and being told of their happiness in afterlife and the bell would call them to service so I will not give you the money, so I guess it is my life" and Faddei said "I guess you guess right" and put his largest and sharpest knife into the monk killing him on the spot and in the bag Faddei found many gold and silver coins and a bottle and he drunk the vodka and fell asleep and the monk appeared in his dream and said "I did many good deeds and you took my life, now you will do my good deeds!" and Faddei woke up and immediately went two villages over and at the church asked the priest if this is St. Salvey with the busted bell and do they expect Brother Timoftei from Hadiach monastery with money for a new bell and the priest told him that yes, this was St. Salvey and yes, their bell is busted but no, he does not know a Brother Timoftei and no, there is no monastery in Hadiach and so Faddei gave him the money to get a new bell and went and dug up his treasure and threw away his very large and very sharp knives and he got a donkey to carry his riches and went to Hadiach where he changed his name to Brother Josaphat and founded a monastery and learned how to heal animals for all people in the area. On November 12th, 1623 an angry mob put large and sharp knifes into Brother Josaphat (for religious reasons) killing him on the spot and he was canonized in 1867 by Pius IX and is celebrated everywhere on the first Sunday after November 12th and since 1961, also at 143 Franklin Ave. Toronto, Ontario. 

George Gallstone

George's earliest memories were older kids at the orphanage beating him. In time, George beat up younger kids himself. Nobody there knew their real name, age or birthdays ... they were just assigned these by the staff. They named him George and made his birthday April 23rd and, because Mr. Wirtz was taken to the emergency room that night, his last-name became Gallstone. They figured he was six. He grew up fast and was mean and strong but could turn on his charm when he needed to.

One night, when he felt ready, he stole the biggest knife he found in the kitchen, it had a solid black handle, and ran away. He walked North, up towards Bloor Street and robbed at knife-point the first three people he met ... he got almost a hundred bucks and two watches. It was enough to get into a boarding house at Queen and Strachan. Next day he bought himself some decent clothes. He got some cigars at a tobacconist's at Queen and Shaw where he met Amelia, a plump sad looking girl a few years older. Every night he went out mugging drunks and every day he got himself cigars chatting up Amy and her elderly parents. A month later he asked her to marry him and they were happy to accept the young, nice looking commercial traveller George Gladstone as a son in law. The dowry was the store with the small apartment above and the parents retired to Oakville where they had a little cottage. 

George ran the store well and, after a while, bought a building up on College and then another further West becoming a successful landlord. He cheated on his wife and beat her often but never left her because she was such a great cook.

One night Amelia called the police. She told them that she got home to find George dead on the kitchen floor, stabbed thru the heart. The constable looked at the huge kitchen knife with the solid black handle and concluded that it was a robbery gone bad. 

They never found out who did it. Amelia never remarried and started a soup kitchen right in time for the Great Depression of 1929.