The Picker and Rev. Porne
(a story concerning homophobia and "don't ask...dont tell" in the US military)
the story opens with a flash of light...two frightened women in "the magical Mazda...interior shot)...suddenly arriving scared out of their wits in front of bar karma....one is the driver....rather quite affluent but left her cell phone in the house....the other a nice looking mid-aged woman also but a little down on her luck in the current economy). they junmp out and run into the bar....a man is running behind them in a horrible rage....he runs into the bar also. James is behind the bar and Doug is putzing around. the women are almost huddle at the end of the bar. doug come over to the man and tells him he will have to calm a bit . doug's yougner and masculine apprearence helps with this as doe s his demeanor. James tends to the ladies....
the problem happened this way ....the lady down on her luck used to own an estate sale business but she has lot almost everything in the years of this major global recession....she saw a stack of old "centerfold porn" magazines on the trash pile outside the house of the rageful man and the lady who is his current wife(sitting next to this gal).
Dayna comes out of the back of the bar with some food she had prepared for herself and can discern this lady just might need a hot meal ...and offers it...with a polite reluctance the woman accepts the meal and begins to eat. the man was in a rage that his wife had thrown away his porn collection...she is outraged over his pre-occupation with images of women and she is in a loveless marriage. he says it is all the problem of feminist, lezzies and fags...ALL AGAINST THE WAY OF GOD....and his sexual difficulties are all because of these moral degenerates. Now the tv screen comes on...James says you've had some troubles about this stuff for a bit now havent you....the screen show a younger image of him with a boy....his young son in the past....gripping the leather cover of his bible as tho his finger nails would tear into the cover he rails about faggots an and on...teaching the boy that if his family dog every did such an abomination shoot the dog!.....everyone is taken aback in the bar....Dayna is at the end of the bar with the other two ladies. He goes on...i also taught my boy how to be a real man Hunting, Fishing...and never to drink Lite Beer...only Fags drink LITE Beer. Jame is amazed! LOL....My boy was a fine man...a Navy ensign...And???? says Doug....he did his duty for his ship...doug nad James eyebrows up mood...there was a Fag on the ship(this is playing out on the tv screen) my son knew this bastard was a fag... in port he found the guy off the ship and my son took care of business for the security of his ship and the righteousness of god....
we see the young seaman with his head beaten in in alley. OMG GASP from his wife who tells she never knew exactly his past...he had seemed to show up and charmed her...but without a clear past....the ladies are readying themselves to get out of there and back to the car....he goes on and the TV continues to play....they persecuted my boy for killing that bastard faggot...court marshall and he's still in jail. MY MARTYRED SON! But the other man was dead...says James...how could he be sure the man was homosexual when the man couldnt tell it to anyone if he was and no one could ask....the subject replies Listen buddy...a rel man just knows!
The women are making their escape back inside the magical mazda which is taking them back from bar karma it is now late in twilight outside the bar...we see the door closing and the sillhoette of of a youn military man...a private USMC in full dress blues. he come to the end of the bar James comes over as he is placing his uniform hat properly on the bar...he wears a gold wedding band...James looks at him and say well son you have seen some action a bronze star and a purple heart...anything you want is on the house....the young man is a callow farm boy from the South...he briefly explains that yes he has seen some hard action in Afganistan...but heis sad...he has just come from the buriel of a buddy who want so lucky to come home alive....he and his wife are "about to receive a surprise package from God...and the buddy was the man they were going to ask to be their first born child's godfather. What can i can you son asks Jame...Just a LITE BEER sir! a long shot of the bar...freeze...go to credits!