The Day That Words Transformed

Video Description: “The Day That Words Transformed” Trailer. Duration, 42 seconds. “Between Two Worlds” by Nicholas Jeudy. Digital drawing. Top center, a face seen from nose to chin with mouth wide open. Two small rocks tumble from the bottom lip. Larger rocks and stones hang below the chin, scattering out. Amid the rocks float feathers of different colors.  Three wasps hover among the stones and feathers. Title card with the words “Short Story” and “Genre: Fantasy,” is displayed at top. Tagline is displayed at bottom. It reads: “A man discovers that all his words are turning to stones that choke or rocks that rip his throat, and his only hope for rescue is a timid boy.” Title card and tagline fade. A watermark of the word “storyfeather” appears over the image. Lines from the story appear in sequence in different positions: “This time something else flew out. Something black and yellow and hotly thrumming. A wasp darted out of the man’s mouth. And another. And a third. The wasps all landed on his bedcovers and slowly crawled in no particular direction.” Site URL appears at bottom center throughout and fades at end. As the last line disappears, the story title appears at center, and a text card appears at top that reads “Available to Read Now storyfeather.com.” Animation: The word “words” in the title vanishes as a wasp appears hovering for a while before it vanishes and the word “words” reappears.