Slowly she emerged from the deep unconscious and as she opened one eye lid, she felt the sun shine through the spring flowers on the table next to her bed. She raised all the energy she had left, pulled her arm back, hurled the keys at the street below and as the keys left her hands darkness took over and draped her lifeless body across the sill. Time was running out, the drugs had thoroughly kicked in and she felt how one by one her senses faded. She clasped her poisoned trembling hand around the bundle from the dish in the window. Something else was needed to get attention. She screamed at a couple of lovers passing by, but her voice was gone. The rapidly moving paralysis buckled her body and she barely made it off the chaise and into the open window. The thought of money, travels, fame and adoration by her fans was intoxicating right until the stabbing pain in her throat brought her back. “To be so close to the end and now I get a break?” she scoffed. As she opened the envelope, an offer letter for a major lead role fell out. “Sandra Bowers, Panorama Studios, London England”. The sender seemed unfamiliar and the mystery made her forget for a moment that she was in the middle of ending her own life. Delivery for Patty LaCroix? She hadn’t heard anyone ask for her by her stage name in years.īack upstairs, clutching the envelope, she fell back into the red velvet chaise by the window. She descended the stairs carefully and opened the door. Patty reluctantly removed the satin robe from its hanger, stood up, and got her bearings. One hour until the sweet release.ĭoorbell rang – five long presses. She finished the drink, laid herself calmly down, waited. She made sure the water was lukewarm and as the crystals softly fell to the bottom, she realized she was ready.
She just couldn’t take it anymore.Īs Evelyn disappeared for her weekly therapy, Patty carefully lifted the little white envelope out of her purse, tore a corner off and emptied the contents in a glass. Without a job, suffering from Evelyn’s constant abuse and nowhere to go, Patty decided she had enough. Evelyn needed Patty as much as Patty needed the shelter. Patty struggled to survive, so when her immobile and contentious sister Evelyn asked her to move in with her in her deteriorating San Francisco mansion to help her get around, Patty had no choice. Work turned into late night infomercials, kids’ live performances in the park and extras in a handful of zombie flicks. She loved the silver screen and knew she would be a famous actress on the other side one day.
Patty JoAnn Jensen was born in a small coastal village north of Seattle and grew up working as a part time custodian at The Grand Movie Theater. Life had been interesting, but she decided never to do it again, were she given the chance. Unbearable pain of oblivion had worn through the wrinkled armor and finished her off. Patty hadn’t considered exactly how she would end it, but she knew it had to end.
She’ll have to overcome her fear of dying and settling the score of her life. When previous globetrotter and explore Charlotte is forced to move in to an assisted living facility in her 90s, comedy ensues as she struggles to get out. When divorced father Hank goes hunting for the trophy bear with his non-hunting son, he must face the reality that his love and his son is more important than the next trophy when his son is mauled by the bear. When prim and proper antique store owner Angela receives an old cursed book in an estate sale, she must face her own demons to save the world. He gets more than he bargained for and eventually returns home to reconnect with his children. When Steven loses his job at the factory, he sets out to become a hobo on freight trains traveling the United States. She is forced to reconcile her previous life.Īs the people revolt, Marie Antoinette received word that there’s a solution she must fight against the aristocratic urges and give up authority to the people while her husband still thinks he can save the monarchy.Īfter Lola’s redneck parents died in a car crash she must leave the Ozarks and move in with her sorority cousin at Harvard.
A charismatic leader of a religious cult falls in love with a hard to crack atheist and is forced to confront his own fears.Īn average suburban middle class American tourist visits Versailles and receives flashbacks from the 17th century that become more real than she can handle.