EDIT: Illustration Friday week of 01.25.08

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“close up on a woman standing by a horse. The fog swirls around her.Horse feet clomp against the dirt. Pan up the horse to the woman’s foot, then leg – all the way up to her face; her black hair hanging down so that we cannot see her face.Portrait shot of her, on the horse. There is a strange glow coming from above her. We have pulled back, she sits on the horse, above her (floating) is herself in white, glowing. The black ground and dark purple sky presses against the fog.CUT TO BLACK.
[end.]“From a script I am writing for a short.La Llorona is sometimes called the Woman in White or the Weeping Woman is a figure in North American folklore, the ghost of a woman crying for her dead children that she drowned. Her appearances are sometimes held to presage death and frequently are claimed to occur near bodies of water, particularly streams and rivers. There is much variation in tales of La Llorona, which are popular in Mexico and the United States (especially in Mexican American communities), and to an extent the rest of the Americas
-David