Page 281 - Sweet Embraceable You: Coffee-House Stories

Duchess Berlin 1928 269

MALENKOV shakes his head no. MONIKA picks up a
few pills. GUNTHER peddles off toward a police kiosk
for an ambulance.

Monika: Help me roll her over.

MONIKA looks around but MALENKOV has disappeared.

DISSOLVE

FULL

ANNA is being loaded in ambulance which pulls out dur-
ing the following dialog.

Gunther: Who is she?
Monika: Here are her papers. (Policeman takes them) Who is
she?
Policeman: Another nobody.
Monika: Where will you take her?
Policeman: To the public hospital.
Gunther: Will she be alright?
Policeman: Who knows. The streets these days are filled with
such people. Wanderers.
Monika: A man was with her.
Gunther: He was only passing by.
Monika: Was he?
Policeman: These days everyone is anonymous. (He inspects a
key which MONIKA hands him) Hotel Odeon.
INT. HOSPITAL ROOM—MORNING

MEDIUM ANNA AND NURSE

ANNA asleep. A NURSE attends her, takes her pulse,
touches her fevered forehead.

CLOSE UP WILSON

WILSON, unshaven, sits next to ANNA’s bed. His vigil is

©Jack Fritscher, Ph.D., All Rights Reserved
HOW TO LEGALLY QUOTE FROM THIS BOOK