the leap
Storyboard Text
- As the clouds gathered outside, unnoticed, the ringmaster cracked his whip, shouted his introduction, and pointed to the ceiling of the tent, where the Flying Avalons were perched.
- "Lightning struck the main poles and sizzled down the guy wires." "Harry going down, down into the crowd with his last thought, perhaps, just a prickle of surprise at his empty hands." "Her body twisted toward a heavy wire and she managed to hang on to the braided metal, still hot from the lightning strike."
- It was during her confinement in the hospital that my father met my mother. He was called in to look at the set of her arm, which was complicated. He stayed, sitting at her bedside......
- It was in the hospital that she learned to read and write, as a way of overcoming the boredom and depression of those weeks, and it was my father who insisted on teaching her. In return for stories of her adventures, he graded her first excersises.
- "I was seven the year my house caught on fire, probably from standing ash" "I did not hide under my bed or crawl into my closet. I put on my flannel robe and then I sat down to wait."
- She directed one of the men to lean the broken half of the extension ladder up against the trunk of the tree. She ascended. She vanished.
Over 30 Million Storyboards Created