Black Start
By Anny Ariz and Elyani Jaylien
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Anny Ariz
In this realistic fiction the author shares her inclination to understand relationships. Anny freed herself from the authority of her parents at the age of sixteen due to neglect and used the relationships around her to cope with the transition. She went on to graduate college and encourages a conscious awareness of health and love. She lives with her two sons in Northern New Jersey. Anny aspires to continue writing novels and screenplays that shed light on tough topics and by virtue of a non-profit, Health Empowered by Responsible Sex (HERS) she intends to fight global warming with family planning.
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Black Start - Anny Ariz
Copyright © 2012 Anny Ariz
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Balboa Press rev. date: 10/05/2012
Contents
Foreword
List of Illustrations
Introduction
About the Author
About the Artist
VERMONT
NEW YORK
NEW JERSEY
Te lo agradeceré siempre.
Ammy Martinez
Marie Martinez
Ralph Martinez
Tamara Gonzalez
Maritza Hernandez
People who have been surrounded by noise all their life seemed mortally offended by silence.
-Kurt Vonnegut
Even the most minute of them have an instinct and talent for industry, social organization, and savagery that makes man look feeble by comparison.
-1954 movie THEM
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels or believes.
-Emily Dickenson
If we love ourselves and can see ourselves in others eyes, we can truly love.
-Ananoymos
ForEwOrd
Espapilado—(verb) astute, wide awake, smart, bright, shrewd, street wise, savvy, canny, sharp
The ability to overcome obsticles, survive a challenging situation, be flexible and open-minded.
List of Illustrations
Library of Light
Candle Company Roof Top
Peace Circle
Rose Shops
Shane Meets Rosa
Rose Robbed
Trapped in an Elevator
Starting to Sweat
Forgiving Hugs
Taking Flight
Introduction
In 2006, a friend LE Salas challenged me to write a screenplay with him on the Blackout of 2003. He knew my sentiments towards technology creating a more and more impersonal human population. The premise was to tell the story of five relationships focusing on different reactions to the blackout: addiction to the computer age and work all under the theme of feeling trapped. He wrote two, while I wrote three of the stories. Being a self taught screenplay writer, my writing resembled that of a novel more than anything else. Life got in the way and our screenplay was packed away.
Six years later, after moving to a new place, while unpacking I was lead back to these stories. Instantly, I felt its relevance and simplicity were full of lessons. When the stories I had written were abstracted, they quickly transformed and became a story about empathy, forgiveness and longing. A power outage sometimes proves to be just the thing that turns the light on in us. Away from the many distractions we coexist surrounded by day to day. A Blackout quickly provides the opportunity to appreciate the silence as well as create profound memories with each other. People brought together under a warm and sincere candlelight has a way of generating such great reflection.
A black out occurs for all sorts of reasons, it is the loss of energy. The affected areas are the power generation, water supply, transportation, communication and industry. Throughout history