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Paul Silver
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![[Scene is a BEACH. A man is sat eating chips on a blanket - or rather he is trying to, but a terrifying, haunted-eyed SEAGULL is stood next to him, staring intently]
SEAGULL:
Well well well.
You must be one of these ‘Starers’.
[Show man trying to stare the seagull out]
SEAGULL:
Read an article in the Guardian did ya? ‘Stare seagulls out to save your chips’...
Come on then.
Look into my eyes.
[We see his cold, terrifying, haunted eyes in close up]
Can you see the darkness?
The things I’ve seen?
[Hypnotic waves are coming out of his eyes now]
The things I’ve... eaten...?
Frozen shit from a sewage pipe off the coast of Sussex…
The still-pulsing intestines from a badger by the A602…
Thaaat’s it
Look into the truth
The truth you’ve always known.
I am a seagull.
I am harder than you.
And I am having your chips.
11 [The man’s facade breaks, His eyes water, his lips wobble]
SEAGULL [Eating chips]:
Nom nom nom.
[ENDS]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreidxpsx6ubfyjz2yhp2xtq4ov2akmt4mk4fo5tgf6ckicarqwad44e)
![[Scene is a BEACH. A little kid is running towards the shore. Speech bubbles that follow are mostly coming from THE SEA, which is sort of talking to us.]
1
THE SEA:
Happens all the time.
2
THE SEA:
One second they’re a kid thoughtlessly running into me for joy
[Show kid running towards the sea]
3
THE SEA:
And the next, they’re an adult standing there
contemplating my sublime, death-like endlessness.
[Show the kid instantly transformed into an adult, hands on hips, boringly contemplating the horizon].
4
THE SEA:
I mean, I get it. I’m the *Sea*.
I don’t really do the whole ‘time’ thing.
But it always seems to happen so *quick*.
5
THE SEA:
Right. One way to fix this.
[Shoe the waves licking up against their toes]
6
PERSON [shocked from cold]:
JESUS
7
THE SEA:
Come on
a bit further ….
[Person paddles out into the water a bit]
8
THE SEA:
That’s it…
bit further…
[Person wades to waist height]
9
THE SEA:
Right.
[Person standing still waist height in sea]
10
THE SEA:
HAVE THAT.
[BIG WAVE goes over them]
11
[They are instantly transformed back to a kid again]
KID [laughing]:
UURGHHAHA
12
THE SEA:
Works every time
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreie4atzq4opzmwscna4tkzjfe3lg7xhzd34wlimcrpxuym4uznmery)
