Plot (timeline) of my untitled fictional short story

Plot:

Beginning-setting drive home from work. Calls twin brother to share news but feels guilty, shitty

Michael is on his way home from work. Today he was offered a new promotion to be the Vice President of a division at Hammer International a Global Investment Corp. based out of Sydney, Australia. He has one month to accept the offer and additional month to close out business in his current title and transition to the new position in Sydney, Australia. Driving in his car home he is thinking about his twin brother Terrence. Terrence was given a year or less to live 4 months ago. Terrence recently moved into hospice within the last month. He is having an internal conversation which sometimes becomes a verbal conversation with himself out loud. 

Middle: setting Michael & Tamara’s home

Michael reaches home. He tells his fiance Tamara  who is happy for him but she also understands the enormous weight that this decision will for everyone involved.  

 

End:setting hospice with twin, Tamara and Raheem

 

Lien, Sweetness and Michael Scene

Michael enters the 7-Eleven on Christopher Place and orders a latte with extra whip cream and almond milk. He moves over to the pick-up counter to wait when he bumps into Sweetness. So much time had passed since they last saw each other. Sweetness was working as a social worker in Hell’s Kitchen and had just relocated from North Carolina when Michael and her first met five years ago. “It’s been so long since I have seen you Sweetness! How are you doing?” Sweetness replied “I’m blessed it’s so good to see you Michael”. Michael and Sweetness move to the side and begin catching up on the many missed occasions and events. Just as Michael is telling Sweetness about his recent marriage, Michael hears his name being called. He turns and walks toward the pick-up counter. He hands the female worker his receipt and takes his latte. Before walking away Michael notices that she has a striking image to his baby sister. He looks at her name tag and says Lien by the way that’s a beautiful name for a beautiful young lady and thanks her for her customer service.  

Character Prompt: Michael & Tamara

Character: Michael McClamb 

Image: Brown-skin, African-american , age 30 short (6’2″) confident, inquisitive,  short hair, muscular athletic build. He is a father of a 2 year-old son named Oliver Duane McClamb. He lives with his wife. She is his biggest supporter and she sees him as a good father and provider. 

Tamara sees Michael as strong, dark-skin handsome. She loves his dimples in his cheeks when he smiles and she loves his full lips. She physically likes his built because when he hugs or holds her she feels secure.

Voice: Michael is focused and deliberate. Considers himself a realest 

Desire: He wants to accept a promotion  as Vice President of a division at Hammer International a Global Investment Corp. based out of Sydney, Australia. 

Conflict: He must choose between his older twin brother Terrence (11 minutes & 12 seconds ) and dealing with his (Terrence’s) potentially fatal illness (pancreatic cancer) and moving his family out of the ghetto. He wants to give his wife Tamara and their 2 year-old son Carter all the things he didn’t have. Ex. two-parent home, living in a different country other than the one you were born in, financial stability

Action: He works full-time currently as Manager of the trading desk working with stocks and bonds at Hammer International a Global Investment Corp. He has a B.A. in  accounting and a Masters in Finance 

 

Character: Tamara Hamilton

Image: Brown-skin, African-american, she is 5’5″ nicely shaped breast that are proportionate to her body size.

Michael is attracted to her long, thick curly hair, her white teeth and her beautiful smile. She has a beauty mark above her top lip on her right side.

Voice: She has a sweet tone , slight southern accent. Sometimes people feel she comes off as sarcastic 

Desire: Becoming Michael’s wife and becoming a complete legal family 

Conflict : Supporting her fiances desire to be their for his ailing brother

Action: Recently graduated with a B.S. in nursing and is working as an RN at a prestigious hospital  

 

Character: Terrence McCLamb

Image: 6’2″ tall, slightly muscular build (his health is ailing) with neat corn rolls 30 years old

Voice: strong-minded, caring, weak failing health (voice not strong)

Desire: Wants his twin brother to take the new job offer and live his life 

Conflict : Doesn’t want his illness to impede his brothers potential success. Knows he has 6 months to live but his twin Michael must accept the new promotion offer with in two months time 

Action: Diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer recently  

 

Character: Raheem Amarion Fields 

Image: 5’9″ tall, slightly muscular build with a dark caesar-cut with waves 29 years old

Voice: strong-minded, caring, 

Desire: To be a good friend to his best-friend Terrence 

Conflict : 

Action: Helps his best-friend commit suicide (grants his friend his last wish which was to leave this earth so that his twin brother can move on with his life)  

 

Prompt # 2 on setting:

Michael walked the halls of this abandoned hospital. This place brought back dreadful memories for him. As he walked the hollow hallways of Our Lady Queen of Angels the smell brings him back to that fateful day that everything changed. He stops at what use to be a nurses station covered in filth and swarms of insects, rodents and blood. Michael flashes back to his time spent here at Our Lady Queen of Angel. He remembers the kindness of the nurses and other medical staff but the fear he felt knowing that his end maybe near…