Randi and Shane find what they have been searching for.
Cast
Randi Halle Millien
Shane Mark Millien
SFX and Music Contributors
SFX
Q Tone [Query]
Tone 4.wav by patchen of freesound.org
Q Tone [Response]
Tone 3.wav by patchen of freesound.org
Music
Eve’s Letter Theme
Prayer Guitar Loop by itsrighter of looperman.com
Created by Mark and Halle Millien
Cover Art by Halle Millien
Written, Directed, and Produced by Mark Millien
Thank you to everyone that has supported us during this difficult time. Thank you to the protesters risking their bodies and health. Thank you to the medical professionals who are healing bodies or granting them peace. Thanks dad.
Glossary
The Blue Fall: a three year period where police officers connected to the killings of unarmed black men and women died under mysterious and unrelated circumstances.
Raguel: the angel of vengeance among the Abrahamic tradition.
Eve’s Letter
Jude and Shane, I’ve spent days trying to write this letter. I don’t think I’ve figured out how to do what I was asked to do, but if I put it off any longer I’ll lose my courage. Your dad’s instructions are specific and I will do my best to abide by them. I’m supposed to tell you what’s happening in the world. It’s been a hard time for everyone, but for you two, it’s been particularly cruel. I want to tell you that everything will be okay but when you read this, you’ll know better than me. Can you find me then, and let me know if I was right? I hope by the time you read this we’ve seen each other many times since your mother’s funeral. I didn’t visit as often as I wanted before the world shut down and now I wish I’d used every red cent on a flight to be with the people I love. If any of us had known, we would’ve been crisscrossing the skies like locusts. I’m stalling. First, what’s happening. Connecticut and Rhode Island are the only two states that saw a decline in new cases this week. I’ve never been to either, but it sounds like they may have a modicum of their shit together. It’s almost July. Friday saw the largest single day number of cases since this all began. We have one quarter of the world’s cases and deaths and 4% of the population. As bad as things are, no one is as upset as they should be at the things they should be upset about. No one seems to really sit with how badly we’ve mismanaged this. Maybe because it wouldn’t help to dwell on it, but I think it’s because we are isolated from one another and the devastation hasn’t hit home for so many of us in a way that makes the numbers make sense. At least, for most of us. The Florida and Texas governors won’t issue mask mandates. The Vice President was just in Dallas, getting serenaded by an unmasked choir of more than a hundred pious fools from a pew right up front. Over the weekend there were reports that the administration removed thousands of social distancing signs at the Tulsa rally. I wonder, at this age, what you think of cops? Has it changed since you were children? Do they even exist in the same capacity? Some of them are being exposed for being the vile terrorists they are. In California, Alabama, North Carolina. A cop there was caught on tape saying he “can’t wait to start slaughtering” Black people. It’s been 108 days since Breonna Taylor was killed and still no arrests. A man fired more than a dozen shots into a crowd of protesters demanding justice for her, or at least a shred of accountability, and killed a young photographer who supported the demonstration. Riot police broke up a peaceful violin vigil for Elijah McClain with pepper spray and batons. After the Minneapolis city council voted to defund their police department, we’re seeing protesters in New York and Seattle laying siege to City Hall and the private residence of the mayor while thousands marched in solidarity for the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall riots. People hate the word incremental. The quick translation is “draggin your feet”, but it feels like this is different. It feels like maybe this is lasting. Maybe you’ll remember the marches as an icon of liberty that you didn’t have to inherit, a relic of your childhood that shocks you into appreciation for what you have. Facebook had to change its policies by labeling important posts and deleting anything that incites violence after a hundred companies boycotted spending advertising dollars on their platform. That couldn’t have happened without everyday people using their voice, making themselves heard, and refusing to be mollified into going back to the way things were. Mississippi abolished their state flag. Mississippi. Georgia was one of four states who still didn’t have any hate crime laws on the books, but Governor Kemp, who stole an election from Stacey Abrams, signed one into law on Friday. There’s no appetite to rejoice with everything still so dark, but maybe there’s some light leaking in. Any splinter of sunlight has to make it past the storm cloud that is 45. The Russian government offered bounties for American troops serving in Afghanistan, and while it’s not clear right now what he knew and what he didn’t it is clear that he’s incompetent and unfit, so does it matter? Second, I’m supposed to tell you about your father. I think he wants me to absolve him. I can’t do that. I won’t do that. He’s told me that he has made a plan. I can only tell you this. He is certain. He is certain that this is the only way to care for the two of you in the way that you will need. I hate that he told me. I hate that him for loving him, but boys, I can tell you that he is convinced in a way that is hard to put into words. He was calm and casual and still so full of love for the both of you. He warned me that if I told anyone that people would take you away, and that that would be worse. And for better or for worse I believed him. He told me that I was the only one he trusted, the only one left, to leave you with what he couldn’t. Answers. And certainty. That he did what he did for you no matter how selfish or insane that may sound. It has been a terrible burden to live with but I am no victim. I was a willing participant in keeping this from you and for that I can’t even begin to ask for your forgiveness. I can’t even ask for your understanding. Instead, any hate you may still carry for your father, I ask that you carry it for me instead. He was weak and I should have been stronger. Lastly, he wanted me to tell you two something that makes no sense to me but I’m hoping will provide closure or meaning to the two of you. Your father was never religious before but perhaps we all find God at the end. He told me to tell you “He saved us once, he saved us twice, but when he rises, we must save ourselves.” I’ve looked it up but if it’s scripture Google doesn’t know it. If it’s a prayer between a father and his sons, I pray it is heard and answered. Sweet boys, you deserved better. I will love you until the end of my days.
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